Sr Software Development Manager, EC2

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Instance Networking team owns the packet pipeline that powers networking for every EC2 instance. Our software defined networking powers features like Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) features like firewalling (security groups) novel performance and scaling innovations and even billing and monitoring. Our vision is to combine the performance of bare metal networking while maintaining all the benefits of the cloud to deliver features not possible on bare metal i.e. true Software Defined Networking (SDN).

We are looking for a world-class technical leader (Sr. Software Development Manager) to manage multiple teams and strategic initiatives for EC2 instance networking in Seattle WA or San Diego CA.

We are builders focused on the next generation of our instance networking platform: the packet pipeline the Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) and the embedded software that runs directly on Nitro cards. We work side by side with Annapurna Labs on the Nitro cards of the future.

This is a leadership role with real surface area. You will lead multiple teams set technical strategy for EC2 instance networking and partner with Principal Engineers Senior Managers and executives on requirements and direction that reach across all of Amazon. The problems are hard the scope is company-wide and the work is visible to the most senior leaders at AWS. We work on problems that matter and we have a good time doing it. If that sounds like you we want to talk.


Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Software Development Manager you will:
Own the technical and product vision for a foundational layer of AWS infrastructure.
Partner with leaders and executives across the company to understand diverse requirements set priorities and drive direction across organizational boundaries.
Hire grow and lead a team of Software Development Managers and engineers; mentor and coach them toward their next level.
Build a team culture people want to be part of and take career growth seriously.
Own the operational health of your teams security availability and performance.
Run a development process that ships meaningful improvements to customers continuously.
Set the engineering bar: design implementation testing version control documentation deployment monitoring and operations.


A day in the life
You will work on problems that dont have textbook answers. How do you process packets at line rate on a resource-constrained Nitro card handling encapsulation security-group enforcement and metering without adding latency a customer could ever notice How do you roll out memory-safety and packet-integrity improvements across millions of hosts worldwide without dropping a single customers packet You will take ideas from a whiteboard sketch through requirements design and launch and you will see them run at a scale almost nowhere else can offer.

About the team
We are a team with a wide range of experience and tenure and we invest in bringing new members up to speed. Knowledge sharing and mentorship are part of how we work not an afterthought. We think about each engineers growth when we assign projects matching people to work that stretches them toward what they want to do next.

- 10 years of engineering experience
- 5 years of engineering team management experience
- 10 years of planning designing developing and delivering consumer software experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs projects and development teams in an Agile environment

- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience designing and developing large scale high-traffic applications

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 San Diego - 220100.00 - 297700.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 220100.00 - 297700.00 USD annually