We are looking for a Senior Software Development Manager to lead the multi-team S3 Tables organization. In this role, you will own the technical vision, multi-year roadmap, and execution for the service, working at a scale that very few engineers in the industry ever encounter. Your organization will ship innovations that customers feel directly in query latency, cost per terabyte scanned, ingestion throughput, and the simplicity of running an open lakehouse on AWS.

This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, open-source table formats, and large-scale analytics. You will help define how Iceberg evolves in the cloud, partnering with the Apache Iceberg community and with engine teams across AWS and partners to make sure S3 Tables is the gravitational center of the open analytics ecosystem. Internally, you will partner with S3 storage, indexing, and control plane teams, and with AWS analytics leadership, to deliver a service that is both deeply integrated and uncompromisingly open.

We want a leader who thinks big, invents on behalf of customers, and is energized by problems that only show up at S3 scale. The bar is high and the opportunity to shape how the world stores and analyzes its data is higher.

S3 Tables is a new, fast moving team building within the most durable and scalable storage system ever built. We are early in our journey, the product is young, the customer base is growing quickly, and the surface area in front of us is large. We are doing this in the open with Apache Iceberg, obsessing over customer workloads, and inventing in places others assume are solved. If you want to help build something into what it can become, rather than maintain what already is, this is the team.

Key job responsibilities

- Lead and grow a multi-team organization of senior engineers and engineering managers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, deep ownership, and customer obsession.

- Define and execute a 1 to 3 year technical roadmap, balancing near-term customer wins with long-horizon bets on query performance, table maintenance, metadata scale, and Iceberg evolution.

- Drive architectural decisions for distributed systems at exabyte scale, including metadata services, compaction and optimization pipelines, snapshot and transaction management, and engine integrations.

- Make S3 Tables the highest performing, most cost effective home for Apache Iceberg anywhere, and contribute back to the Iceberg open source project.

- Partner with product, business, and AWS analytics leadership to translate customer needs into engineering priorities that move adoption and trust.

- Establish operational excellence standards across availability, durability, latency, and throughput, and lead the org in exceeding them as the service scales.

- Recruit, develop, and retain top talent, building a diverse, high performing organization with a strong pipeline of future leaders.

- Represent S3 Tables in senior leadership reviews, customer engagements, and external forums with clarity and conviction.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 10+ years of engineering experience

- 5+ years of engineering team management experience

- 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software 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 partnering with product and program management teams

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

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 - 220,100.00 - 297,700.00 USD annually