Software Development Manager III, Simple Email Service

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is on a mission to revolutionize email experiences for our customers and their end users. We are at the forefront of creating richer more engaging email functionalities innovating at every step to provide a seamless unified experience.

In the SES team you will be responsible for a fast-growing program with broad-reaching and a service wide impact. As a member of the SES engineering team your job will allow you to work with customers and other technology leaders at Amazon to help translate strategic business needs into features and projects. You will then work with your team to deliver those features and projects more quickly than many people may think is possible.

We are seeking a hands-on engineering manager for a mid-sized team with the experience and familiarity in designing building and operating large-scale web fault-tolerant and distributed systems. You will be leading a team of SDEs and directing their work to ensure the team delivers the right quality functions and features required for the latest in email technology.

Leaders in this role are expected to model the responsible use of AI in planning and operations reinforce mechanisms that embed intelligent tooling into day-to-day engineering practices and coach teams to apply AI-first problem-solving mindsets while maintaining high judgment operational rigor and ownership of outcomes.

Leadership and Culture-Building:
As a leader youll cultivate a culture of creativity and openness. Your decisions will guide the teams direction encouraging innovation and growth. A key part of your role is to mentor and develop a diverse team fostering an environment of knowledge sharing and professional growth.

On-Call Responsibility:
This position involves on-call responsibilities. We dont like being paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend so we work to ensure that our systems are fault-tolerant. When we do get paged we work together to resolve the root cause so that we arent paged for the same issue twice.

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- 7 years of engineering experience
- 3 years of engineering team management experience including coaching and developing careers of engineers
- 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 leveraging modern developer tools automation or emerging AI-assisted technologies to accelerate engineering workflows improve operational rigor or enhance team decision-making
- Excellent communication collaboration reporting analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Experience with large scale web and distributed systems.
- Experience in designing and building fault-tolerant distributed systems.

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