Software Development Manager, Amazon

• Our ideal candidate is excited about the incredible opportunity cloud computing represents and is deeply passionate about working with great teams that deliver the highest quality services
• You are naturally customer centric and thrive in a fast-paced environment that requires strong technical and business judgment and solid written and verbal communication skills
• You are experienced on leading engineering teams, helping individuals grow and making the team effective, while remaining humble and fun!
• You have excellent listening and writing skills and very strong technical competency
• You are a thought leader, but you don't just know how to solve the problem, you prove it by leading a team to build the solution
• Last but not the least; you have a high bar for code quality and passion for design and architecture
• 2+ years of engineering team management 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 and program management teams

Desirable

• Does running experiments that inject failure on complex distributed systems running on AWS sound exciting? Then keep reading!
• AWS Fault Injection Service is a fully managed service for running fault injection experiments to improve an application’s performance, observability, and resilience
• Fault injection experiments are used in chaos engineering, which is the practice of stressing an application by creating disruptive events in testing or production environments
• Examples of these events are sudden increase in CPU or memory consumption, termination of instances, or introducing disruption on the network
• Observing how the system responds under those conditions allows teams to identify and implement improvements
• AWS Fault Injection Service simplifies the process of setting up and running controlled fault injection experiments across a range of AWS services, so teams can build confidence in their application behavior
• This is a unique opportunity to lead a dynamic team for this AWS service, where you will have the opportunity to collaborate on delivering impactful customer facing product features across the full development lifecycle
• You will work with product management and engineers across AWS to design solutions and operate services at scale
• You will be leading a team of software development engineers to design, implement and operate in production solutions on behalf of customers
• You will work closely with product management and other business partners to define strategy and requirements
• You will have regular communication with senior management on status, risks and product strategy
• AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS)
• AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure
• In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running
• We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on
• We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help
• You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles
• You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers
• And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion