Manager, Software Development (SDM) , Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink

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Come and build the future with us as we change the way the world processes & analyzes real-time streaming data at never before seen scale. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink (MSF) team is looking for engineering leaders to build our managed service that makes it easy for customers to build and run stream processing applications using Apache Flink.

Real-time data processing from a stream has historically required substantial investments from customers in writing the application and maintaining the necessary infrastructure. Our teams service provides customers with a fully managed stream processing platform where customers can develop their applications using Java SQL Scala.


With MSF customers need only program the business logic and our service takes care of the rest; setting up Apache Flink clusters ensuring availability setting up backend for state and checkpoints etc. We are committed to delivering a simple enjoyable and serverless stream processing experience for our customers!

Responsibilities of a Software Development Manager include:
- Hiring and developing your team. A successful service starts with a great team and delivering through others is your primary responsibility.
- Defining and executing on a roadmap for your service. Youll know and talk with your customers on a regular basis as well as using data and metrics to understand how your service is used and build and deliver on a roadmap that delights them.
- Making the operation of your service safe and sustainable. Leaders in AWS know the details of their service and prioritize the right improvements to keep things running smoothly.
- Project ownership. Youll drive execution of projects within your team and work with your peers to keep everyone aligned. Youll clearly and transparently communicate status to leadership and get help where needed to keep your team unblocked.
- Contributing to the overall AWS Streaming Services Seattle leadership team. Youll be part of defining our culture ensuring our teams have everything they need to be productive and excited to work at AWS and helping to drive site-wide initiatives that improve life for all our teams.

Building a High-Performing & Inclusive Team Culture
You should be passionate about attracting & developing a world-class team that welcomes celebrates and leverages a diverse set of backgrounds and skill-sets to deliver results. Driving results through others is your primary responsibility and doing so in a way that builds on our inclusive culture is key to our long term success.

Work/Life Balance
MSF is family-oriented and values work-life balance. We generally keep core in-office hours from 10am to 4pm. About half of us come in earlier and the other half of us stay later. We are builder-operators of our services at AWS and have a modest on-call rotation where youll participate once every 2-3 months.

Energizing and Interesting Technical Problems
You will be working on enabling your team to build a platform to operate an open source stream processing engine Apache Flink to make MSF the defacto service to run stream processing applications. Today real-time processing from data streams still needs substantial investments from customers in writing their stream processing applications and maintaining the necessary infrastructure. You will be pivotal towards defining and driving the vision of making the service easy to use AWS service robust and cost-effective for customers to run their stream processing applications. You will also have the opportunity to be a part of the team developing large scale stream processing services like Apache Flink and Apache Kafka running on container orchestration platforms. Its humbling and energizing to integrate the latest open-source technologies with AWS scale.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Were committed to the growth and development of every member of MSF and that includes our Development Managers. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the culture and direction of the entire Messaging and Streaming (MAST) org and deliver site-wide initiatives that will improve the life of all of our teams.

You will be joining the team at a very exciting time with a lot of growth in front of us as we make stream processing mainstream.

We are looking for engineering leader for our MSF service in Seattle to help us grow the team and service further and is excited about big data technologies and collaborating with open source community. Please reach out to jadearvi@ for a chat about the team/service.


Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover invent simplify and build.




- 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

- 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 an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability 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 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.