Software Development Manager, Foundation Team - Pippin, StoreGen
Confidential
Permanent
I.T. & Communications
Location
Washington, Seattle, United States
Posted
July 17, 2026
Job Description
StoreGen is chartered with supporting Stores teams in their AI-native development journey. Pippin is StoreGen's AI-assisted design and planning tool - the surface where builders plan, write, and collaborate as they build - and it is about to become one of the most widely used internal platforms at Amazon. With Quip's deprecation, Pippin inherits a user base of 384K daily active builders. The Foundation Team is the team that makes Pippin run at that scale.
As its founding SDM, you are not inheriting a steady-state system - you are building a team from scratch at the most consequential moment in Pippin's history. You will own Tier 1 reliability for a platform hundreds of thousands of builders depend on daily, and you will lead your team in experimenting with AI-native approaches to how that platform runs: automating operational workflows, accelerating incident resolution, optimizing cost, and hardening security - not through traditional engineering alone, but by making AI a first-clas...
As its founding SDM, you are not inheriting a steady-state system - you are building a team from scratch at the most consequential moment in Pippin's history. You will own Tier 1 reliability for a platform hundreds of thousands of builders depend on daily, and you will lead your team in experimenting with AI-native approaches to how that platform runs: automating operational workflows, accelerating incident resolution, optimizing cost, and hardening security - not through traditional engineering alone, but by making AI a first-clas...