We are looking for a strong Software Development Manager to lead a team responsible for core IAM components that are used by all the AWS services to onboard to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
- Manage a team of SDEs building foundational IAM components
- Own the technical direction for core IAM components
- Drive cross-team collaboration across AWS organization
Utility Computing (UC)
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 customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
Key job responsibilities
- Defining and delivering on long-term product and architecture strategy for services that enable the journey of AWS services to onboard to IAM
- Executing against project plans and delivery commitments; Managing day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
- Recruiting hiring mentoring coaching retaining and performance management for a best-in-class engineering team.
- Communicating development quality operations and system performance to senior leadership
- Ownership and continuous improvement of all operational metrics and automation tools for your teams software.
About the team
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is used by all AWS customers to secure their workloads in the cloud by providing scalable resilient and highly available authentication and authorization mechanisms. With the growth of AWS the types of workloads and the access management frameworks needed to secure them keep evolving. IAM control plane comprised of many services workflows and tools collectively hosting a large number of APIs enables AWS customers to manage users roles credentials policies etc. IAM data plane sits in the runtime path of virtually every single request that comes to AWS making it one of the most scalable systems on the planet. AWS IAM authorizes billions of requests per second with high availability while maintaining a single digit millisecond latency.
- 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
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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 TX Austin - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually