You will hire, shape, and lead a team of engineers in Santa Clara while partnering closely with sister teams in Seattle, Virginia and Dublin. The work your team will own is high-stakes and high-visibility: software that keeps our network available, compliant and secure, tools that drive capacity planning and scaling decisions across tens of thousands of devices, and systems that detect and recover out-of-service capacity before customers feel it.

If you are energized by building something new, want your work to have direct and measurable impact on one of the world's most critical infrastructure platforms, and are ready to lead engineers solving genuinely hard problems - this role was designed for you.

Key job responsibilities

Build the team. Own recruiting in the Santa Clara area end-to-end - define the roles you need, attract strong candidates, and hire engineers who will grow with the charter.

Deliver the services. Lead your team to design, build, and operate production-grade software that addresses network business needs.

Own outcomes, not just output. Define the metrics that tell you whether your services are working, set the bar for quality and reliability, and hold the team accountable to continuous improvement.

Work backwards from customers. Engage with internal stakeholders - network engineers, partner teams - to understand what they need and translate that into a prioritized roadmap.

Operate in a distributed environment. Collaborate day-to-day with peer managers and engineers across multiple sites, ensuring your team is well-integrated, not siloed.

Grow your engineers. Coach and mentor software engineers at all levels, invest in career development, and create an environment where people do their best work.

Raise the bar on engineering. Establish strong software design practices, code quality standards, and deployment processes appropriate for infrastructure that affects global customers.

About the team

We own the network and software solutions that keeps Amazon's data-center core fabric running - from the routing logic that moves traffic to the systems that detect capacity shortfalls, and coordinate large-scale changes with zero customer impact.

Our work sits at the intersection of software engineering and network operations. You do not need a networking background to join us - many of our strongest engineers came from pure software backgrounds. What you need is a genuine interest in hard problems at massive scale.

We are a distributed team with engineers in Dublin, Seattle, and Washington D.C., and Santa Clara.

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 Clara - 212,700.00 - 287,700.00 USD annually