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

Location: Palo Alto

Description

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 Amazon's intellectual property through patents and/or external publications

About the team

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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 Amaze Con conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

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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

* 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

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

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