Software Development Manager, Data Firehose

Software Development Manager, Amazon Data Firehose

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Come build the future of data streaming with the Amazon Data Firehose (ADF) team! Amazon Data Firehose is a fully managed service for capturing, transforming, and delivering streaming data to destinations like Amazon S3, S3 Tables, Redshift, Splunk, and Open Search Service. It automatically scales to handle incoming data, requires no application to be written, and can perform transformations before delivery, such as format conversion or dynamic partitioning.

Firehose works with billions of events and petabytes of data each day in support of many thousands of customers running mission‑critical real‑time applications.

We are looking for an experienced Software Development Manager to join the Amazon Data Firehose leadership team. This highly‑motivated and passionate Software Development Manager will build and lead a team to build our next generation high performance purpose‑built streaming data delivery service to solve real‑time end‑to‑end delivery of data between hundreds of sinks and sources. We are looking for an engineering manager who is enthusiastic about data streaming, and using open source technologies to solve real customers’ business needs, at AWS scale.

Building a High‑Performing & Inclusive Team Culture:
You should be passionate about attracting & developing a world‑class team that welcomes, celebrates, and leverages a diverse set of backgrounds and skill‑sets to deliver results. Driving results through others is your primary responsibility, and doing so in a way that builds on our inclusive culture is key to our long term success.

Energizing and Interesting Technical Problems:
Firehose already operates at unprecedented scale, while upholding performance and durability requirements that our customers care about. You will lead the software development of large‑scale distributed purpose built systems at AWS scale; in Java, C/C++ and other languages using open source technologies and Amazon proprietary technologies.

About the team

About AWS: 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.

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

• Experience in engineering team management
• 5+ 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
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in communicating…