1 day ago
Redmond, WA, USASenior
Base Salary
$168k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the requirements baseline, requirement-writing standard, requirements as code, and the architecture and requirements center of excellence.
- Ensure every requirement is allocated, testable, written to the standard, and accompanied by a verification method before handoff.
- Lead end-to-end design and delivery for the requirements area and communicate technical trade-offs.
- Work directly with partner engineering teams through agreed contracts, interfaces, and service levels.
- Automate manual requirements and delivery processes.
- Mentor engineers, drive best practices, mitigate long-term risks, clear blockers, and escalate issues appropriately.
- Set technical direction across multiple teams and improve capability and efficiency release over release.
Requirements
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience mentoring engineers, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
- Experience influencing partner teams and mentoring engineers.
- Experience defining requirements and scope, building consensus, and making trade-offs when problems and scope are not fully defined.
- Experience leading requirements engineering for complex embedded or hardware-and-software systems.
- Experience with requirements management tools linked to code and tests and with a requirement-writing standard such as Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax (EARS).
- Experience across the full software development lifecycle, including shipping and maintaining production software.
- Preferred: clear narrative writing, data-driven reviews, requirements engineering for space, aerospace, automotive, or other safety-critical systems, using AI to generate or check requirements, and setting technical direction across multiple teams.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, and AD&D coverage.
- Employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the compensation package.
- The role is located in Redmond, Washington, with U.S. export-control eligibility restrictions requiring qualifying citizenship, permanent residency, refugee, or asylum status.
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About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.