The Device Software Services organization is specialized in building foundational platform solutions that cater to a number of critical customer experiences across Amazon devices.
We are hiring a Software Development Manager to lead the Devices Multi Tenancy and Infrastructure team that builds core capabilities required for DS2 Services to be multi-tenant and provide custom services for DS2 tenants. This includes framework for Tenant Management and Tenant specific customization handling, federated authentication and fine grained access control and management.
As a Software Development Manager you enjoy taking on hard, ambiguous problems and breaking them down to their simple parts. You are creative, driven, and highly productive. You are a great team player who will naturally elevate the performance of the people around you. You have a track record of quickly ramping up on complex technical systems, demonstrating strong judgment, and identifying opportunities for our customers. You have the ability to manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment and deliver results.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, fostering technical excellence and career development while driving engineering best practices
- Own end-to-end delivery of complex software projects, managing scope, timelines, and resource allocation across multiple workstreams
- Drive architectural decisions and technical strategy aligned with business objectives and Amazon's leadership principles
- Collaborate with product managers, other engineering teams, and stakeholders to define technical roadmaps and deliver customer-focused solutions
- Manage team performance, conduct hiring, provide performance reviews, and make data-driven decisions for team growth and composition
- Ensure operational excellence through metrics, monitoring, and continuous improvement of systems reliability and scalability
- Implement and enforce security best practices, compliance requirements, and risk management strategies across team deliverables
- Drive innovation and technical excellence while maintaining high standards for code quality, testing, and documentation
Basic Qualifications:
- 10+ years of engineering experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ 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
- 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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