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Software Development Manager, AWS Developer Experience
Amazon
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Seattle, WA, USA · San Francisco, CA, USA · Santa Clara, CA, USA · United States · Santa Clara, CA, USA · San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Jul 20, 2024
DESCRIPTION
The AWS Developer Experience team is looking for an experienced Software Development Manager (SDM) to build and lead an exceptional, high-performing team in designing, developing, and launching a new developer-focused experience. This role will collaborate closely with UX design, product management, research, and the Developer Experience team to innovate and build an experience for the AWS developer community. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical leadership skills, a growth-oriented mindset, and the ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment.
As the SDM, you will be responsible for building and leading a team of talented engineers, scoping and delivering large projects end-to-end, and driving initiatives from design to release. Your role will include gathering business and systems requirements from customers, writing technical specifications, managing project schedules, and coordinating implementation efforts across multiple teams. You'll also be expected to provide mentorship to engineers and offer leadership on complex technical issues, drawing from your deep and broad technical expertise.
This highly visible role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact by developing and launching a community program experience that inspires and empowers technical builders across all AWS services. The successful candidate will bring deep technical and software expertise, a desire to have an industry-wide impact, and the ability to work effectively within a fast-moving, startup-like environment within a large company. If you're ready to raise the bar for customer experiences and drive innovation in the AWS developer community, we encourage you to apply for this exciting position.
Key job responsibilities
- Work backwards from customer needs, collaborate with product and other leaders to drive alignment on the product direction and delivery
- Lead an engineering team in the design, development, and deployment of highly scalable services
- Mentor and develop engineers, help define and grow the technical culture, and attract and retain top engineering talent
- Build mechanisms and processes for team efficiency, continuously inventing and simplifying.
About the team
AWS Marketplace is the app store for AWS. The Marketplace enables software sellers to reach all AWS customers, and it enables software buyers to easily discover, purchase and consume cloud software. The team in Austin will be working on strategic initiatives to increase our reach to enterprise buyers. This product strategy will require us to build new services, workflows, and some front-end integration, and of course will include world-class AWS-level operational excellence.
About AWS
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of engineering 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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 committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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