Software Development Manager Elastic Block Storage EBS Capacity Optimization

Join Amazon Web Services (AWS) and lead the optimization of one of the worlds largest cloud fleets. We are seeking a software development manager for the Elastic Block Storage (EBS) Capacity Engineering team to lead a group of engineers focused on optimizing the fleet of servers powering some of the worlds largest websites and cloud services. EBS is the solid state drive for the Internet storing exabytes of data for millions of customers. You will lead the development and operations of software services that orchestrate and allocate servers in each AWS data center in the world. We continue to optimize capacity to improve the availability of EBS for all customers and push boundaries of cost efficiencies at massive scale and we want you to own that charter!

In this role you will lead coach and grow a team of engineers responsible for creating and optimizing global and regional capacity. This involves building software and mathematical optimization models to balance service infrastructure financial and business constraints. EBS is rapidly expanding to meet the growing data usage by AWS customers accelerated by the exponential growth of AI workloads. You will lead your team to introduce new machine learning models and algorithms to automate how we balance capacity to support this demand. Your work will directly impact AWSs expansion. You will have the opportunity to work across AWS organizations and business teams to power the rapid growth of the AWS cloud and our customers products. Your role will ensure optimal operation of our fleet impacting exabytes of storage and gigawatts of power. Managing capacity in data centers to avoid outages while ensuring efficient resource use is challenging and Amazon has developed sophisticated models to anticipate how much and when capacity is needed. You will lead your team to improve these models which has a direct impact on what kind of margins EBS has over time and the kind of capital efficiency AWS has over time.

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Key job responsibilities
Build and maintain a highperforming worldclass team including hiring the best talent and owning team members career development and wellbeing to ensure continued growth in capability over time

Maximize the teams success by ensuring clarity in the teams vision priorities roadmap. Use track and develop key performance metrics to track progress. Balanced nearterm operational needs with highimpact longterm initiatives.

Write clear concise documents to communicate vision proposals plans and status updates to stakeholders including senior leaders across product engineering and finance. Develop and analyze business and technical data as well as whatif scenarios to drive highlevel executive decisionmaking around infrastructure and product.

Steer technical decisions by guiding your team to make the right technical investments and raise the bar on technical designs. Partner closely with senior and principal engineers to ensure the right technical decisions are made.

Lead daily team meetings and process including creating a highperforming agile environment for the team. Ensure the software development engineers have clarity on their daily work and are unblocked to deliver results for customers.

Organize operations and manage escalations with high velocity to root cause and mitigate impact related to capacity constraints in a site. Identify capacityrelated issues proactively and work across technical and business teams to define and implement solutions.

Develop and maintain strong relationships with crossfunctional partners across technical and business functions. Participate in leadership discussions across organizations on topics related to capacity management.

Partner with leadership to influence and drive org design and broader prioritization.

A day in the life



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
7 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

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 delivering products against plan in a fastpaced multidisciplined distributedresponsibility and often ambiguous environment
Experience in many disparate technologies typically ranging from frontend user interfaces through to backend systems and all points in between

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