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Software Development Manager, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

Amazon$184K — $250K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years managing engineering teams
  • 7+ years working directly within engineering teams
  • 3+ years in system design and architecture
  • 8+ years developing multi-tier web services
  • Strong understanding of full software development life cycle
  • Experience collaborating with product management teams

Responsibilities

  • Oversee software design, development, testing, and operations
  • Hire and lead a high-performing engineering team
  • Develop and implement a strategic roadmap for service availability
  • Design highly scalable and reliable services for AWS
  • Ensure best engineering practices and processes are followed
  • Communicate effectively with technical teams and leadership
  • Promote team development through hiring and mentoring

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance plans
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage
Full Job Description
Leading brands like Epic Games, Lyft, AirBnB, and Vanguard use Amazon Kinesis Data Streams as their foundation for real-time streaming data. With Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, customers process Gigabytes per second of real-time user engagement data for gaming and marketing analytics, build real-time IoT sensor data analytics solutions, analyze millions of financial transactions in real time, perform network intrusion detection for security analytics, transform and load logs into data lakes, and much more. These customers choose Kinesis Data Streams because it is a fully-managed service that makes real-time streaming data ingestion and processing, reliable, easy, and at low cost. Tens of thousands of customers worldwide, ranging from large commercial enterprises, federal and state governments, regulated industries like healthcare and finance, to small start-ups have moved from batch to streaming with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, and we are just getting started.

The Kinesis team is looking for a Software Development Manager interested in building highly scalable, well-architected services for use by all AWS Services.

The ideal candidate will have strong technical skills and familiarity with the challenges developers face when building highly available distributed systems. They will oversee software design, development, testing, and operations, as well as hire and lead a team, and lay out a roadmap to maximize impact on AWS service availability.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of Amazon's fastest growing businesses. It serves millions of customers, from startups to enterprises, in more than 190 countries and powers the developers who are building the next generation of global industry leaders. AWS runs a globally distributed environment, operating at massive levels of scale.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience

- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience

- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience

- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations

- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy

- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

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, CA, Santa Monica - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually

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Amazon Careers

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