Software Development Manager at Amazon

Description

• EC2 Instance Placement owns the systems that decide on which physical hosts EC2 instances are placed when they are launched. The systems execute real-time optimizations across a variety of dimensions every time a new EC2 instance is launched.

Your Role and Potential Impact

• Lead a team of Software Development Engineers to build and run the control plane and data streaming systems that drive EC2 instance placement decisions
• Create the vision and drive the roadmap for your team, thinking big about how data can be leveraged to improve how EC2 offers compute power to customers
• Attract and grow hire-performing engineers for your team
• Mentor and coach your team members and foster an inclusive engineering culture
• Maintain a high-level of operational excellence
• Lead and refine the team’s agile software development process

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services
• Experience partnering with product and program management teams
• 3+ 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

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