Amazon

Senior Manager, Data Center Systems, Data Center Automation

Amazon$130K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in consumer software planning, design, and delivery
  • 5+ years managing engineering teams
  • Experience collaborating with product/program management
  • Proven ability to manage multiple projects in Agile environments
  • Experience in system design and architecture (patterns, reliability, scaling)
  • Background in developing large-scale, high-traffic applications
  • Skilled in setting metrics for engineering and operational success

Responsibilities

  • Lead development and operation of data collection services for power and cooling in data centers
  • Directly manage Software Development Engineers and Software Development Managers
  • Establish best practices and development standards for the team
  • Drive operational excellence and team performance
  • Ensure data center systems are designed for reliability, security, availability, and scalability
  • Build relationships with peers to align on AWS services and methodologies

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on impactful global cloud monitoring applications
  • Contribute to high availability in AWS data centers
  • Play a key role in supporting Amazon's sustainability goals
  • Mentorship and development opportunities within engineering teams
  • Collaborative environment fostering innovation and excellence
Full Job Description
Application deadline: Jul 11, 2026

The AWS Data Center Systems team seeks a Senior Manager to lead the development and operation of services that collect power and cooling equipment data in Amazon data centers. This includes both directly managing Software Development Engineers and serving as a manager-or-managers for Software Development Managers.

This is an opportunity to build global cloud monitoring applications using device telemetry from industrial control systems. These systems directly contribute to the high availability of AWS data centers, and Amazon's sustainability goals.

As a Senior Manager in Data Center Systems Software, you will ensure that data center systems are designed with high reliability, security, availability, scalability, and low latency from the outset. You will establish development standards, best practices, and drive operational excellence throughout your team. You will hire and develop the best engineers to accomplish the organization's goals and mission. The relationships you build with peers will help ensure the group is using the right AWS services and methodologies for the company's scale, while recognizing the unique requirements of the data center systems problem space.

A day in the life

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 7+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience

- 5+ years of engineering team management experience

- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

- Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications

- Experience establishing metrics for measurement of engineering and operational excellence

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