Software Development Manager, Amazon
CloudFront Control Plane
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Open for applications
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Self-ability to build teams, and directly work and manage junior and senior engineers, along with a focus on operational and engineering excellence, is a must
- If you are interested in living every day at the forefront of scale and innovative technologies, you will enjoy Amazon CloudFront!
- 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 managing a team of high calibre Software Engineers developing complex, world class, scalable software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience working directly within engineering teams
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- This is a unique opportunity to influence product direction as part of building next-generation change propagation and cache invalidations systems
- We are looking for an engineering leader to innovate and solve the hardest problems in scale, security, availability, and performance
- This leader will own control plane change propagation and invalidations aspects of the service
- As our service continues to grow, the challenge is to scale by another order of magnitude, using a wide spectrum of technologies ranging from C, Rust, Java and many AWS internal services
- This leader’s responsibilities will include all aspects of the service experience: designing and building the software, delivering on customer performance and scale expectations, and operational excellence
- Own propagation of customer configurations across CloudFront control and data planes
- Own cache Invalidations system across CloudFront control and data planes
- Lead and grow the Change Propagation and cache Invalidations engineering team
- Build and drive the adoption of next-generation Change Propagation and Invalidations
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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