Software Development Manager III, Simple Email Service

As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization we have a vision to provide business applications leveraging Amazons unique experience and expertise that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazons real-world experience to build opinionated turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

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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- 3 years of engineering team management experience
- 7 years of engineering experience
- 8 years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- 3 years of Software Engineer Software Developer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
- 1 years of developing large-scale multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java C# or C experience
- 1 years of developing large-scale multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture experience
- 1 years of developing large-scale multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- 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 range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually