Software Development Manager, AWS CloudFront

Do you believe in the mission of a secure reliable and faster internet Do the prospects of high throughput and re-buffering free video streaming excite you Great! Us too. We are looking for an engineering leader for Amazon CloudFront in Dublin to innovate and solve some of the hardest problems in scale security and automation.

Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data videos (Live and Video on demand) applications and APIs to customers globally with low latency high transfer speeds all within a developer-friendly environment. Our customers use CloudFront for fast and secure delivery of web/application content e-commerce gaming platforms financial workloads on-demand video/music streaming and live events streaming. Our team writes software which works flawlessly for millions of transactions every second and exabytes of data transfer.

This leader will delight our customers by driving innovation in CDN security space build intelligent services that will analyze customer workloads & configurations to come up with optimal CloudFront setup recommendations and bring down resolution time for any customer issue with automation.

An ideal candidate must have experience dealing with ambiguity and should enjoy building and operating one of the largest systems in the world with a relentless focus on operational and engineering excellence. They must have strong technical depth and ability to grow team code and customer outcomes at a rapid pace. Self-ability to directly work and manage junior and senior engineers along with a strong focus on operational and engineering excellence is a must.

If you are interested in living every day at the forefront of extreme scale and cutting-edge technologies you will enjoy Amazon CloudFront!

Read more about the services our team delivers for customers

Here are some reasons you should come work with us:
- You will provide a service that is core to all modern Internet businesses.
- You will be in charge of the complete software development lifecycle defining prioritizing designing building and testing new features.
- You will operate an AWS business with globally distributed servers and customers at a massive scale.
- You will own one of the lowest latency and highest throughput services in all of AWS.
- You will get the opportunity to work closely with a great team of software developers.
- You will understand what it takes to grow and operate a global business at our scale.
We
- Are a group of technologists from diverse backgrounds.
- Obsess over our customers needs and experience.
- Are owners. We love building new innovative technologies and improving our existing ones.
- Wear multiple hats. We enjoy the prototyping and tinkering stages as well as the rigor of making solutions production-ready.
- Are fast-growing agile and collaborative.
You
- Enjoy seeing the impact your work has on real customers.
- Are comfortable in an agile environment and create order from ambiguity.
- Build strong teams with others as passionate as you about this mission.
- Take ownership and do what it takes to get the job done.
- Want to create services at a massive scale used by millions of people.
- Use data to make decisions and validate assumptions.
- Learn from others and help grow those in your team to achieve their best.


About the team
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- 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 in engineering team management
- Experience in engineering
- Experience partnering with product and 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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