Software Development Manager, Managed Connectivity

Are you looking to work on the coolest technology while growing your career in a group that cares about people just as much as products

Amazon Traffic Engineering builds innovative managed compute and networking solutions that empower Amazon Software Engineers to build and operate services for Amazons customers that are secure highly available and easy to scale. We identify and support the foundational infrastructure capabilities tools and datasets needed to support rapid global expansion of Amazons SOA infrastructure built on top of AWS technologies. Our team focuses on robust and scalable architecture patterns and engineering best practices driving adoption of ever-evolving and AWS technologies.

As a Software Development Manager (SDM) you will lead a team of brilliant engineers focusing cloud-native networking features like security authentication authorization load balancing throttling routing and more. Your products will continuously improve KPIs (availability efficiency productivity) on behalf of service owners by managing SOA concerns providing automation tooling and higher-level abstractions. You will use ML and GenAI technologies to improve performance load management and operations across a portfolio of networking products.

As the leader of this space you will hire develop and retain deep technical team members. You will own defining the long- term vision driving long and short- term product strategy working with internal Amazon customers as well as partnering with stakeholders. You will be responsible for setting the team culture best practices and planning. You will ensure the timely delivery of new product and feature launches. You will get to work in a deeply technical space with experts in solving important problems unique to the size and scope of Amazon

Our vision is to make Amazons Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) more manageable and developers more productive by building an ecosystem of managed abstractions that allow Amazon Retail developers to focus on their unique business logic and business operations knowing that security authentication authorization load balancing throttling and routing just work and are always consistent with Amazon best practices.

Key job responsibilities
- Drive prioritization and planning of projects and features
- Working with leadership cross teams and business stakeholders to define vision strategy and roadmap
- Facilitating the design of the architecture of these distributed and highly scalable systems to solve complex problems
- Monitoring validation and operation of production services
- Owning the inputs and the business outcome through cultivating a culture of relentless auditing and metric monitoring automatically where possible
- Setting clear measurable quality goals for the organization and collaborate across orgs to drive achieving them
- Mentoring and promoting team members and help leaders to grow the organization

About the team
Managed Connectivity builds cloud-native networking and connectivity solutions for SDO (Stores Digital & Other) Service Owners using AWS primitives to seamlessly connect with each other and Amazons customers by providing managed secure resilient and performant connectivity infrastructure

- 7 years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 4 years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- 3 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 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 or program management teams

- 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 an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Sunnyvale - 212700.00 - 287700.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually