Sr. Software Development Manager, Compliance Safety Services

ID: 6522

Type: Full-time

Category: Others

Company Name: Amazon Development Center (Romania) S.R.L.

Location: ROU, Bucharest; ROU, Iasi - Bucharest - Romania

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Job Description

Lead the future of AI-powered compliance automation at Amazon scale. Build and scale a high-impact services that processes billions of documents annually using state-of-the-art machine learning and large language models to ensure products sold on Amazon meet global regulatory, safety, and compliance requirements.

In this role, you will lead a team building state-of-the-art ML and engineering solutions for media automation. Your team will develop advanced document processing systems that extract, validate, and enrich compliance information at unprecedented scale - enabling Amazon to verify product safety across our global marketplace.

This is an opportunity to shape the technical strategy and organizational growth of a foundational capability within Customer Trust organization. You'll partner with senior leaders across compliance, product, and engineering to drive innovation in automated document processing, mentor and develop technical leaders, and create reusable systems that reduce time-to-market while scaling compliance operations globally. Your work will directly impact customer safety and trust across Amazon's worldwide operations.

Join us in building the infrastructure that keeps Amazon customers safe.

Key job responsibilities
• Lead multiple Software Development and Applied Scientists functions building advanced document processing systems that extract, validate, and enrich compliance information from billions of documents annually
• Drive technical vision and strategy for AI-powered media automation capabilities, including vision language models, content processing pipelines, and machine learning infrastructure that enable Amazon to scale compliance operations globally
• Partner with senior leaders across compliance, product, engineering, and business teams to define roadmaps, prioritize initiatives, and align technical solutions with regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions
• Build and scale high-performing engineering and science teams through hiring, mentoring, and developing technical leaders who deliver state-of-the-art ML and engineering solutions
• Own critical system performance metrics and create data-driven strategies for infrastructure growth, cost optimization, and continuous improvement in processing accuracy and efficiency
• Architect scalable, reusable processing functions that reduce time-to-market and total ownership costs while expanding adoption across Customer Trust organizations

About the team
Our team builds the machine learning and engineering infrastructure that powers compliance automation across Amazon's global marketplace. Engineers and scientists collaborate on SOTA AI technologies, including vision language models and large-scale distributed systems, that solve complex problems at the intersection of computer vision, natural language processing, and regulatory verification. We foster a culture of technical excellence where team members drive measurable impact through innovation, with opportunities to influence architecture decisions and mentor emerging technical leaders. The work environment emphasizes collaboration across disciplines, rapid experimentation, and ownership of end-to-end solutions that directly affect customer safety.

Basic Qualifications

- Experience in engineering
- Experience in engineering team management
- Experience in planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
- BS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related technical field
- Experience dealing well with ambiguity, prioritizing needs, and delivering measurable results in an agile environment

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications
- Experience in building scalable systems based on web services
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience solving complex problems quantitatively and develop actionable data-driven business recommendations

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Company Information

Company Name: Amazon Development Center (Romania) S.R.L.

Company Website: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/locations/bucharest-romania

Company Address: Strada Sfântul Andrei 39a, 700028 Iași, Romania

Amazon Development Center (Romania) S.R.L. is a Romania-registered subsidiary and engineering center affiliated with Amazon that operates as part of Amazon’s global network of product development and technology hubs. The entity functions primarily as a software engineering and technology services organization supporting Amazon’s worldwide businesses. Its work is concentrated on designing, developing, testing and operating software systems and services that underpin Amazon’s retail platforms, cloud services, machine learning applications, data platforms, device software and related operational infrastructure. As a development center, the company’s core business activities include end-to-end software engineering, product development and technical program delivery. Typical engineering responsibilities carried out by teams in Amazon’s Romania development organization encompass backend services and APIs that serve high-scale e-commerce and cloud workloads; frontend and mobile application work for customer-facing experiences; data engineering, analytics and business intelligence to support operational decision-making; machine learning and artificial intelligence research and implementation to improve search, recommendations, personalization and automation; and quality assurance, testing and site reliability engineering that ensure availability and performance of production systems. Beyond product engineering, the center commonly provides specialized technical services such as cloud systems design and operations (including work related to Amazon Web Services), security engineering and compliance support, internal developer tools, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms, and performance optimization. Teams at the center collaborate with cross-functional groups across Amazon’s international organization—product managers, data scientists, UX designers, operations staff and business stakeholders—to deliver features, scale systems, and carry out research and experimentation that feed into Amazon’s global product roadmap. The development center also frequently hosts research and applied science activities focused on areas such as natural language processing, speech and conversational AI (relevant to voice-enabled products), computer vision, forecasting, optimization and large-scale data modeling. These applied science efforts are typically integrated with engineering teams to move models and prototypes into production services that serve Amazon customers and internal users. Service offerings and deliverables produced by the Romania development center include production software and microservices, machine learning models and data pipelines, internal platforms and tools for developer productivity, infrastructure automation, monitoring and observability solutions, and operational procedures to support production incidents and business continuity. The center contributes to both customer-facing products (for example, portions of Amazon’s retail site, mobile apps, or Alexa-enabled capabilities) and backend infrastructure (for example, elements of AWS service engineering, payment and fraud detection systems, or logistics and supply-chain tooling), depending on the specific organizational alignment of teams located in Romania at any given time. Organizationally, Amazon Development Center (Romania) S.R.L. functions as an employer of engineers, scientists, program managers, technical product managers, operations specialists and support staff. Public-facing recruitment and location materials from Amazon indicate that Amazon’s Romanian engineering locations hire across a wide spectrum of technical roles including software development engineers (SDEs), data engineers, machine learning scientists, site reliability engineers (SREs), UX and frontend engineers, and various technical leadership positions. The center therefore serves both as a talent hub to support Amazon’s global technical needs and as a local base for executing technology-intensive initiatives in Europe. The development center typically engages in cross-border collaboration: teams in Romania work with counterparts across Amazon’s global engineering organization to align on architecture, share libraries and tooling, coordinate releases and integrate services. This distributed model allows the Romania center to contribute to large-scale, multi-region systems while leveraging Amazon’s platform standards, security controls and operational practices. From a commercial and operational perspective, Amazon Development Center (Romania) S.R.L. is a legal entity used to administer employment, comply with local corporate and tax regulations, and manage local facilities and operations in Romania. The entity’s scope and specific team composition can evolve over time in response to Amazon’s global product priorities and regional hiring plans. Public-facing materials from Amazon highlight Romania as one of several European locations where Amazon maintains technology and operations centers, emphasizing local recruitment, technical training and career-development programs. In summary, Amazon Development Center (Romania) S.R.L. represents Amazon’s investment in software engineering and technical capabilities within Romania. The center’s verifiable roles include building and operating software and data systems, conducting applied research in machine learning and related fields, and delivering platform and infrastructure services that support Amazon’s customer-facing products and internal operational needs. As part of Amazon’s distributed engineering footprint, the Romania development center contributes engineering capacity, technical expertise and regional operational support to Amazon’s broader portfolio of services and products.

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