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Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

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15 days ago

Director, Software Development - Language Foundations, Amazon SW Builder Experience

Onsite · US, WA, Seattle United States

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You will lead the Language Foundations team at Amazon, shaping the programming languages strategy and community engagement. This role involves modernizing language tools and supporting software builders across various languages.

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Job description

You will lead the Language Foundations team at Amazon, shaping the programming languages strategy and community engagement. This role involves modernizing language tools and supporting software builders across various languages.

Details

  • Seattle, WA, on-site
  • Experience in software development leadership

The work

  • Own the vision and multi-year roadmap for Language Foundations
  • Deliver support for strategic languages like Java, Rust, and Python
  • Lead language modernization through tooling and language foundations
  • Shape the external direction of programming languages in standards bodies