Software Development Manager, EMR & Athena, Open Source Engines Team

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (Iot) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

We are looking for a Software development manager to lead development of technical stack to support our (Big) Data processing services on EMR. Amazon EMR is a web service which enables customers to run massive clusters with open-source data processing frameworks like Spark Trino Flink Hive Hadoop HBase and more with the ability to effortlessly scale up and down as needed. We run large number of customer clusters enabling a variety of customer use cases including analytics and web-scale machine learning. We are doing innovative work on the open source data processing frameworks with the goal of making the EMR the best place to run big data workloads. This role requires ownership autonomy and an ability to deliver this role you will be able to build teams from scratch and partner with multiple leaders. You should be a self-starter with a bias towards independent problem solving. Clear communication and prioritization will be important as you partner with Product Management to plan and deliver experiences for Data processing. You have a passion for managing complex technology projects and helping the team make strong business decisions.

How do you know if you are a good fit for us You are fascinated by the challenge of building innovative global-scale software systems. You value the purposefulness and connect to customers in every action decision and code delivered. You are inspired by difficult problems and by quickly finding solutions that will stand the test of time. You relish the opportunity to take active ownership for building and operating a service that delights customers. You have a passion for open-source software and relish the opportunity to engage and build software together.

Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities:
- Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture design and extensible code
- Technically lead a team of smart engineers on complex projects
- Be an advocate of industry best-practices to produce reliable fault-tolerant and dependable code
- Code and test complex system modules; develop and leverage frameworks to be effective and efficient
- Participate in architecture design and code reviews to maintain our high development standards
- Own system architecture scalability reliability and performance
- Collaborate and influence other teams to deliver and operate large scale distributed services in the cloud
- Mentor other engineers defining our challenging technical culture and helping to build a fast-growing team

About the team
We are builders to the core that are:
- Passionate in building large scale distributed systems
- Thrive in culture of ownership delivery and bias for action
- Energized by fast paced environment
- Innovate and invent in agile and collaborative environment
- Curious and eager to learn

About AWS
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- 3 years of engineering team management experience
- 7 years of engineering experience
- 5 years of developing large-scale multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience
- 4 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
- 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 VA Arlington - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually