Software Development Manager AWS Data Processing Serverless Capacity, Amazon Athena Control Plane

Serverless Compute Platform team manages the serverless core compute infrastructure powering Athena and Glue services. This platform is responsible for lifecycle of underlying EC2 instance infrastructure and execution environment and operates at a massive scale. On daily basis the platform manages millions of EC2 instances. The team is now building the next version of this platform that will be foundational for multiple services and multiple workload types all while maintaining strict SLAs.

Amazon Athena and Glue are analytics services that makes it easy to get insights from Amazon S3 based data lakes and other federated sources using open standards like Apache Iceberg and other open table formats. These services operate at scale and are serverless so there is no infrastructure to set up or manage as the service scales automatically for any arbitrary large datasets and complex query. Creating a simple rich and performant experience for customers requires solving challenging engineering problems.

We are looking for a Software Development Manager who can lead key initiatives in Serverless capacity team. We have big technical challenges ahead of us that will grow the service and we need a leader who is passionate technical and wants to take on a core control plane charter. You will bring you experience of building managing focusing and mentoring engineering teams to deliver fast results.

You will continue to grow your leadership skills in this role as you:

- Collaborate with some of the strongest technical leadership in the industry
- Actively participate in hiring talented people
- Actively develop the careers of the individuals on your team
- Work directly with senior and principal engineers to define the architectural roadmap
- Oversee the design process implementation schedule and delivery to customers in a fast-paced environment
- Infuse AI into every aspect of development and operations
- Bring a deep understanding of software development methodologies to the team
- Manage a service with high availability and continue to learn and develop the skills needed to lead a service team with the high operational excellence bar expected by AWS
- Contribute to Amazons intellectual property through patents and/or external publications


About the team
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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.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 CA East Palo Alto - 212700.00 - 287700.00 USD annually