Key job responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end design, implementation, and delivery of software systems spanning multiple features, from defining technical strategy through deployment and ongoing maintenance.
- Own your team's architectural direction, making informed trade-offs between short-term delivery needs and long-term extensibility, performance, and security.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional partners to clarify requirements, build consensus on technical approaches, and ensure successful integration across dependent systems.
- Drive adoption of engineering best practices on your team, including code quality, operational excellence, and effective use of generative AI tools to augment productivity and software quality.
- Coach and mentor engineers on your team and across related teams, providing guidance on system design, coding practices, and career development.
A day in the life
You'll start your day reviewing design documents and code reviews, providing feedback that raises the quality bar for your team. Throughout the day, you'll move between deep technical work-writing code, prototyping solutions, and debugging complex issues-and collaborative sessions where you align with partner teams on system interfaces and integration points. You'll also spend time identifying opportunities to simplify existing systems and proactively addressing architectural gaps before they become problems.
About the team
Our team is focused on building software that customers rely on every day. We value collaboration, technical rigor, and a pragmatic approach to solving hard problems. You'll work alongside talented engineers who are committed to learning from each other and pushing the boundaries of what's possible at Amazon's scale. We're investing in new capabilities and looking for someone who will help shape our technical vision for the years ahead.
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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, MA, Boston - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually
