Software Development Manager, Amazon FSx

We are looking for an exceptional software development leader to help revolutionize cloud file storage for workloads like GPU-heavy AI/ML workloads high-performance computing (HPC) and enterprise applications. Launched in 2018 Amazon FSx is an AWS service that provides fully managed and high-performance file storage that powers some of the most critical and largest-scale workloads running on AWS today.

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 customer experiences developer tooling and automation for Amazon FSx. 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

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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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 MA Boston - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually