Software Development Manager, Amazon FSx for Windows

We are looking for a Software Development Manager to play a leadership role on this growing service. FSx for Windows provides a fully-managed Windows filesystem for AWS customers in a variety of verticals and recently released improved management capabilities with the launch of FSRM support. Come join our team in Bostons Seaport and lead the team in managing Windows filesystems at an unprecedented scale.

AWS is a dynamic and rapidly growing business within Amazon with over a million active customers in 190 countries around the world. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload and it now has more than 90 services that range from compute storage networking database analytics application services deployment management developer mobile Internet of Things (IoT) Artificial Intelligence (AI) security hybrid and enterprise applications. We maintain this rapid pace of innovation by treating each team like its own independent business inside AWS directly accountable for their customers satisfaction service innovations growth and meeting revenue goals.

As a Software Development Manager you will lead a team designing and building transformative new customers experiences on Amazon FSx for Windows. Delivering reliable and high-performance services and features at AWS scale requires technical leaders with extraordinary expertise and boundless creativity. At Amazon managers will interact with customers understand our business goals and innovate rapidly delivering high-quality and ground-breaking functionality.

Embark on a journey with us to build a new service for AWS. We need your passion innovative ideas and creativity to shape the future of a nascent service at Amazon scale with a team that is super smart driven to serve customers and fun to work with!


Key job responsibilities
- Lead a team of software engineers in delivery and operational excellence of an AWS service
- Hire mentor and promote engineers
- Work with teams across AWS to build new solutions
- Build mechanisms to drive the highest standards within your team
- Work with product managers principal engineers and senior leadership to define the technical roadmap and strategy for FSx

A day in the life
- Touch base with your team on how their work is progressing
- Engage with customers senior leaders and product managers on opportunities and challenges
- Review the operational posture of the service
- Participate in planning for the team and businesss future
- Develop your people and help grow their careers

About the team
About AWS
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- 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.