As a Software Development Manager (SDM), you will lead a team of brilliant engineers focusing cloud-native networking features like security, authentication, authorization, load balancing, throttling, routing, and more. Your products will continuously improve KPIs (availability, efficiency, productivity) on behalf of service owners by managing SOA concerns, providing automation, tooling, and higher-level abstractions. You will use ML and GenAI technologies to improve performance, load management, and operations across a portfolio of networking products.
As the leader of this space, you will hire, develop, and retain deep technical team members. You will own defining the long- term vision, driving long and short- term product strategy, working with internal Amazon customers as well as partnering with stakeholders. You will be responsible for setting the team culture, best practices, and planning. You will ensure the timely delivery of new product and feature launches. You will get to work in a deeply technical space with experts in solving important problems, unique to the size and scope of Amazon
Our vision is to make Amazon's Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) more manageable and developers more productive by building an ecosystem of managed abstractions that allow Amazon Retail developers to focus on their unique business logic and business operations, knowing that security, authentication, authorization, load balancing, throttling and routing "just work" and are always consistent with Amazon best practices.
Key job responsibilities
- Drive prioritization and planning of projects and features
- Working with leadership, cross teams and business stakeholders to define vision, strategy and roadmap
- Facilitating the design of the architecture of these distributed and highly scalable systems to solve complex problems
- Monitoring, validation, and operation of production services
- Owning the inputs and the business outcome through cultivating a culture of relentless auditing and metric monitoring, automatically where possible
- Setting clear, measurable quality goals for the organization and collaborate across orgs to drive achieving them
- Mentoring and promoting team members and help leaders to grow the organization
About the team
Managed Connectivity builds cloud-native networking and connectivity solutions for SDO (Stores, Digital & Other) Service Owners, using AWS primitives, to seamlessly connect with each other and Amazon's customers by providing managed secure, resilient, and performant connectivity infrastructure
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 4+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 2+ years of engineering team management 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.
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