EBS Snapshots is one of the largest distributed storage systems at AWS, foundational to how AWS operates. EC2 instance launches, cross-region disaster recovery, and backup workflows across AWS all depend on what we build. We're looking for a Software Development Manager to lead a team that owns the EBS Snapshot public APIs, the snapshot control plane, and the distributed metadata backend that powers the service.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You'll lead a team of engineers responsible for systems in the critical path of AWS, balancing customer-facing feature delivery with operational excellence and long-term architectural health. You'll partner closely with senior engineers, principal engineers, and peer managers across EBS and EC2 to drive technical direction, develop your engineers, and deliver against ambitious goals.
We're looking for someone who has experience leading software engineering teams operating distributed systems at scale, who develops engineers across levels, and who thrives in a culture where ownership and impact matter. If you want to lead a team that ships features customers depend on and operates infrastructure that AWS itself depends on, we'd love to talk.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Manager on this team, you will work alongside engineers and leaders who care deeply about performance, availability, scalability, and durability of customer data. Your team will deliver features that solve real customer problems while operating distributed systems in the critical path of AWS. You will have strong ownership over the design, implementation, and operation of a massive scale distributed system, and you will see the impact your team's work has on a wide range of customers from startups to enterprise.
A day in the life
No two days look the same. You might spend the morning in 1:1s with your engineers, the afternoon partnering with senior engineers on a design review, and end the day aligning with peer managers on cross-team delivery.
You'll balance hands-on technical leadership with people management, customer-facing feature delivery, operational excellence, and long-term strategy. We value managers who lead through ambiguity, develop their engineers, and operate as part of a leadership team that shapes direction beyond a single team's scope.
You'll have real ownership from day one.
About the team
EBS Snapshots is foundational to how AWS operates. Our team builds and operates the distributed systems that customers across AWS rely on for backup, disaster recovery, and data protection.
Engineers here get realownership, work on problems at massive scale, and regularly collaborate across AWS to deliver for customers. We balance shipping impactful features with investing in long-term system health.
We're intentional about building a welcoming team culture, and we're looking for someone curious, empathetic, and motivated to help amplify that.
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
- 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
- 5+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- 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, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
