Software Development Manager, Managed Connectivity

Are you looking to work on the coolest technology while growing your career in a group that cares about people just as much as products

Amazon Traffic Engineering builds innovative managed compute and networking solutions that empower Amazon Software Engineers to build and operate services for Amazons customers that are secure highly available and easy to scale. We identify and support the foundational infrastructure capabilities tools and datasets needed to support rapid global expansion of Amazons SOA infrastructure built on top of AWS technologies. Our team focuses on robust and scalable architecture patterns and engineering best practices driving adoption of ever-evolving and cutting-edge AWS technologies.

As a Software Development Manager (SDM) you will lead a team of brilliant engineers focusing cloud-native networking features like security authentication authorization load balancing throttling routing and more. Your products will continuously improve KPIs (availability efficiency productivity) on behalf of service owners by managing SOA concerns providing automation tooling and higher-level abstractions. You will use ML and GenAI technologies to improve performance load management and operations across a portfolio of networking products.

As the leader of this space you will hire develop and retain deep technical team members. You will own defining the long- term vision driving long and short- term product strategy working with internal Amazon customers as well as partnering with stakeholders. You will be responsible for setting the team culture best practices and planning. You will ensure the timely delivery of new product and feature launches. You will get to work in a deeply technical space with experts in solving cutting-edge problems unique to the size and scope of Amazon

Our vision is to make Amazons Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) more manageable and developers more productive by building an ecosystem of managed abstractions that allow Amazon Retail developers to focus on their unique business logic and business operations knowing that security authentication authorization load balancing throttling and routing just work and are always consistent with Amazon best practices.

Key job responsibilities
Drive prioritization and planning of projects and features
Thinking big and working with leadership cross teams and business stakeholders to define vision strategy and roadmap
Facilitating the design of the architecture of these distributed and highly scalable systems to solve complex problems
Monitoring validation and operation of production services
Owning the inputs and the business outcome through cultivating a culture of relentless auditing and metric monitoring automatically where possible
Setting clear measurable quality goals for the organization and collaborate across orgs to drive achieving them
Mentoring and promoting team members and help leaders to grow the organization

About the team
Managed Connectivity builds cloud-native networking and connectivity solutions for SDO (Stores Digital & Other) Service Owners using AWS primitives to seamlessly connect with each other and Amazons customers by providing managed secure resilient and performant connectivity infrastructure

- 2 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
- 4 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

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The base salary for this position ranges from $171400/year up to $286200/year. Salary is based on a number of factors 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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.