Amazon.com

Software Development Manager

Posted on: 15 Feb 2021

Seattle, WA

Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Are you passionate about leading a high powered engineering team with a strong track record of delivery working on a growing service poised for the next level of growth? Are you excited about impactful technical projects that help our biggest enterprise customers manage hundreds of accounts with over a million resources across multiple regions?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the pioneer and recognized leader in the Cloud. Our web services provide a platform for IT infrastructure that is used by hundreds of thousands of developers and businesses around the world. These customers range from start-ups to leading web companies to Global 500 companies in financial services, healthcare, and technology.

AWS Config is the foundation service that customers rely on to manage the configuration, and adherence to IT policy, for their cloud resources. As a Software Development Manager on AWS Config, your job will be to work with, and grow, an outstanding development team building one of the largest cloud resource management and compliance systems in the world.

The right candidate will possess proven engineering management skills and have experience leading software developers in a high growth team. You are expected to be versatile and able to thrive in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment. You are comfortable managing competing priorities and are able to bring order to ambiguous scenarios. Maturity, high judgment, ability to influence and leadership are essential to success in this role. You are data-driven and analytical. You can clearly & effectively communicate (written as well as verbally) across organizations and up to senior leadership.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
5+ years of experience as a software developer
3+ years of experience managing people
Passion for people management and mentorship.
Experience building and operating large scale, distributed systems

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience leading multiple engineering teams
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Proven track record of building and managing high performing engineering teams.
Strong sense of ownership, including an ability to promote operational excellence.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Strong program and product management skills.
Experience with AWS platforms, services, and design patterns

Amazon.com

Seattle, WA

Amazon.com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products and subscriptions in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) segments. It sells merchandise and content purchased for resale from third-party sellers through physical stores and online stores.

The company also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TVs, and Echo devices; provides Kindle Direct Publishing, an online service that allows independent authors and publishers to make their books available in the Kindle Store; and develops and produces media content.

In addition, it offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products on its Websites, as well as their own branded Websites; and programs that allow authors, musicians, filmmakers, skill and app developers, and others to publish and sell content. Further, the company provides compute, storage, database, and other AWS services, as well as compute, storage, database offerings, fulfillment, publishing, digital content subscriptions, advertising, and co-branded credit card agreement services.

Additionally, it offers Amazon Prime, a membership program, which provides free shipping of various items; access to streaming of movies and TV episodes; and other services. It serves consumers, sellers, developers, enterprises, and content creators. Amazon.com, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Volkswagen AG. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.