Amazon

Director, S3 Storage

Amazon$264K — $350K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years in architecting fault tolerant and highly available systems.
  • 5+ years of people management experience, including managing managers/teams.
  • 5+ years of experience owning 24x7x365 service operations.
  • Preferred: Leadership in delivering scalable solutions.
  • Preferred: Master's or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering with 10 years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design and development of S3's core storage distributed system.
  • Drive roadmap and deliver new functional architecture solutions.
  • Oversee multiple engineering teams across different locations.
  • Spearhead the adoption of innovative technologies.
  • Engage with C-suite customers to represent the Amazon S3 business.
  • Focus on operational excellence to meet business demands.
  • Hire and develop technical talent to scale the team.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription).
  • 401(k) matching.
  • Paid time off and parental leave.
  • Assistance for adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
  • Access to mental health support and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).
Full Job Description
As a Director of Software Development for the S3 Storage Engine organization, you will be responsible for leading a group of top talent in the design and development of S3's core storage distributed system. We build innovative software solutions to provide S3 customers secure, durable, available and performant storage with infinite scalability and extremely low cost. In this role you will drive the roadmap, deliver new functionality and architectures, and raise the bar for operational excellence. You'll lead multiple engineering teams through managers across different geographic locations. You'll spearhead new technologies that change what is possible within S3. You'll be a leader in the business as well, owning the financial health of your services. You'll personally engage with C-suite customers to represent the Amazon S3 business.

Success in this role requires a leader experienced in establishing and building relationships with a wide range of peers, including senior AWS executives, customers at all levels of experience and responsibility, deeply technical software and systems engineers within the team, and internal organizations. This leader must have the proven skills to easily switch between weighing in on complex engineering details, taking a long-term view of the business, growing and developing the next generation of AWS leadership, and overall operating as a large-scale organization leader. It requires an ability to prioritize work for the direct team and partner teams, establish goals, and focus attention on the most important inputs to drive the desired business outcomes. This leader must be capable of scaling themselves and their team to meet the ever-increasing demands of a fast-growing business. You'll need to excel at hiring and developing your technical talent. S3 operates at massive scale and stores critical data for customers world-wide, so a passion and discipline around operational excellence is key. Come work hard and make history with Amazon S3!

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (related field) or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years' experience architecting fault tolerant and high available systems
• 5+ years' experience managing people with 3+ years of managing multiple managers/teams.
• 5+ years' experience owning 24x7x365 service operations

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• A leadership position in a team delivering solutions at scale.
• Master's or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering with a minimum of 10 years of relevant software development and engineering management experience.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 264,100.00 - 350,000.00 USD annually

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