The Internet Edge Services (IES) organization at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is at the forefront of optimizing global internet connectivity for our customers through innovative software solutions. We are on a bold mission to reimagine how the internet's edge operates at planetary scale - building the Border Network of the future: software-defined, running on commodity hardware, and programmable at every layer. This kind of platform unlocks capabilities that simply weren't possible before.
We're seeking a talented Software Development Manager to join our dynamic team. In this role, you'll be lead the team responsible for building, enhancing, and operating Catographer - the intelligent control plane that will power Amazon's software-defined network at the internet edge. Catographer will act as the brain of the network, continuously ingesting real-time signals such as routing information to determine how traffic should flow across Amazon's global border network. It translates those decisions into directives for the underlying network controllers, enabling fast and reliable traffic management at massive scale. By replacing legacy routing approaches with a modern, horizontally scalable platform built in Rust, Catographer improves network reliability, reduces the blast radius of failures, and unlocks advanced traffic engineering capabilities - all while handling network state changes in milliseconds. This is a unique opportunity to work on a foundational platform for how traffic enters and exits Amazon's network.
In this role, you will lead a team of software development engineers to understand requirements and extend platforms that support software-defined networks (SDN). You are joining a high performing team interacting closely with other engineering teams across USA and Australia.
Key job responsibilities
Lead an established high performing team to identify opportunities and deliver software defined traffic engineering solutions for AWS's internet edge networks leveraging your software background.
You'll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing indistinguishable from perfect global network at the lowest possible cost for our customers.
You'll experience and contribute to an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
A day in the life
- Manage sprint planning for your in-flight projects.
- Prepare a project report for Director level review.
- Review a high level solution design and coordinate its review with key stakeholders.
- Lead a review of operational metrics to ensure continued improvement in the security, availability and effectiveness of services you own.
- Drive process and software improvements across the space
- Ensure your software engineers have a clear list of goals and projects to deliver and handle escalations from director level down
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- 1+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
- 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++ experience
- 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture experience
- 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience
- 5+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- 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, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
