Software Development Manager Amazons Internal Build System - Build Compute Team

Are you passionate about both software development and making your fellow developers life easier The Amazon Build Team owns the tools that allow developers across Amazon to build quickly and correctly. As we embrace a world of continuous delivery the number of package builds each day is well into the millions. At the same time we are adding developers in more locations around the globe so we need to be a global build system responsive in any region. The build team is at the heart of shaping what is possible with the collective set of Builder Tools (BT) that are used daily by virtually every engineer at Amazon.

If youre a creative thinker and you get excited by the idea of solving hard technical challenges to empower developers and ultimately help Amazon continue to build great software fast come join us!

AWS has the most services and more features within those services than any other cloud providerfrom infrastructure technologies like compute storage and databasesto emerging technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence data lakes and analytics and Internet of Things. AWS Platform is the glue that holds the AWS ecosystem together. Whether its Identity features such as access management and sign on cryptography console builder & developer tools and even projects like automating all of our contractual billing systems AWS Platform is always innovating with the customer in mind. The AWS Platform team sustains over 750 million transactions per second.

Responsibilities include:
Managing one of the largest build fleet in the industry performing thousands of millions of package builds everyday.
Directly hiring retaining and growing top engineering talent for your team.
Having a clear technical voice working with and partnering with other teams to deliver a highly scalable and reliable service meeting the needs of Amazon business and its engineers.
Continuously and reliably delivering high quality technical solutions to delight your customers.
Operating a critical service for Amazon
Creating annual plans for the Source team and contributing to the annual plans of the larger organization delivering products for Amazon engineers.

Learn and Be Curious. We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location job family job level etc. Your manager can also help you find a mentor or two because two is better than one. In addition to formal mentors we work and train together so that we are always learning from one another and we celebrate and support the career progression of our team members.

Inclusion and Diversity. Our team is diverse! We drive towards an inclusive culture and work environment. We are intentional about attracting developing and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. Team members are active in Amazons 10 affinity groups sometimes known as employee resource groups which bring employees together across businesses and locations around the world. These range from groups such as the Black Employee Network Latinos at Amazon Indigenous at Amazon Families at Amazon Amazon Women and Engineering LGBTQ Warriors at Amazon (Military) Amazon People With Disabilities and more.

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Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (Iot) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
About AWS
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Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
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Inclusive Team Culture
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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
Experience partnering with product or program management teams
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
Knowledge of mobile application development experience both iOS and Android.

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

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.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.