Amazon
Location
Sunnyvale, CA | United States
Job description
Description
As a software development manager on the Region Flexibility Engineering team, you will play an essential role in building the software services, frameworks, and components at the forefront of Amazon's service-oriented architecture. You will be integral in shaping the direction of our team, how we use state-of-the-art technologies to influence the way thousands of engineers interact with our products. You will be empowered to define the goals, strategy, roadmap and success metrics for this brand new team.
Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will:
Lead your team to solve intriguing problems in software architecture with highly scalable solutions, guiding your team in choosing the right technologies
Define the strategy, prioritization and engineering roadmap for your team & influence across
Directly influence your team’s product design and architectural direction while collaborating with different teams across the company
Hire and develop the industry’s best talent to build highly collaborative and functional teams
Identify opportunities and implement innovative solutions to improve developer experience for thousands of teams at Amazon
A day in the life
In this role, you will manage products and programs and deliver through a highly collaborative team that you help build. You will partner closely with senior leaders across Amazon, and frequently influence their programs & product roadmaps. One day you may be contributing to strategy documents, and another day developing your engineering talent. You will also regularly improve product operational metrics and drive operational excellence initiatives that measurably improve your team’s productivity and job satisfaction.
If this role sounds interesting to you, please send us your application using the Apply Now function. We look forward to hearing from you!
About the team
The Region Flexibility Engineering organization supports the rapid global expansion of Amazon's infrastructure. Our products support all Amazon businesses like Worldwide Stores, Alexa, Kindle, and Prime Video. We drive adoption of ever-evolving and state-of-the-art AWS and non-AWS technologies, and work closely with AWS teams to improve AWS public offerings. Our organization focuses on robust and scalable solutions that are simple to use and are delivered utilizing engineering best practices. We leverage and build foundational infrastructure capabilities, tools, and datasets that enable Amazon teams to delight our customers.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
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
Experience with distributed computing and large scale data processing systems
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $148,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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