Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Amazon Care is a passionate team working to build a best-in-class healthcare product designed to make high-quality healthcare easy to access as an employee benefit for Amazon employees covering Washington State.

We are looking for a Software Development Manager (SDM) who can build a team with the help of a core set of individuals and go for greater heights. A strong passion for hiring and forming a team.
This opportunity comes with technical problems with solutions that are not yet defined. As the SDM for the Platform and Architecture team, you will own the shared infrastructure that drives the Amazon Care business, including shared libraries and core services. Your team will be responsible for setting a high standard for software development within our organization, and for solving common problems related to security and compliance so that other teams are free to focus on delivering customer value.

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isnt about how many hours you spend at home or at work; its about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Masters Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with 6+ years total experience; or Bachelors Degree with 8+ years total experience.
3+ years of experience leading a software development team through multiple product/platform releases.
4+ years of experience contributing to real-world software development.
1+ years experience maintaining software libraries that are used by many teams, such as open source packages.
1+ years experience building services using serverless architectures on AWS (lambda, ecs, etc).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Familiarity with common authentication and authorization architectures, such as IAM.
Meets/exceeds Amazons leadership principles requirements for this role
Meets/exceeds Amazons functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
Experience architecting and deploying services with demanding security and availability requirements.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
Demonstrated leadership in cross-functional, highly collaborative environment.
Track record of developing engineers through various career stages and building high-performance teams.
Experience building complex, high-performance, and highly-available distributed software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.
Demonstrated focus on continuous improvement of systems, software and processes through data analysis and metrics.

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 https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.