Software Development Manager, Manager, Route 53

Amazon Web Services (Route 53) is offering a Software Development Manager position in-person in Arlington VA / Herndon VA USA.

In this role you will be leading a team working on the development of a new DNS service for customers. You will be responsible for building and scaling a secure highly available DNS resolver that enables customers to resolve both public and private DNS queries from anywhere while maintaining strong security controls and compliance requirements.

We are looking for a proven and motivated Engineering leader to take our services software development team to the next level. As a leader you will be responsible for significantly improving the service making tough prioritization decisions iterating and innovating and thinking through distributed systems problems.

You need to be technically deep be able to communicate clearly and have the ability to build a strong team that delivers results. The Amazon Web Services business requires creative engineering and a strong customer focus and you will work with your team and senior leadership to develop and launch high quality services. You will manage and lead a team of engineers to influence our overall strategy and define the teams roadmap. You will also help drive the system architecture spearhead best practices that enable a quality product and help coach and develop team members. A successful candidate will have an established background in managing and delivering software projects great communication skills and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.

Key job responsibilities
- Direct management of the software engineering team
- Lead the architecture and design development deployment and operations for the service
- Strategic planning and execution effectively tracking the progress and management of changing priorities
- Be customer-focused and drive the team to build and deliver solutions that improves customer experience
- Work closely with leadership and stakeholders to review business plans progress and outcomes
- Work with customers listening to their requirements and pain-points and drive solutions to address them
- Be cost conscious drive efficiency improvements

- 6 years of engineering team management experience
- 8 years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 5 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 and program management teams

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.