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DescriptionJob summaryCome join Amazon S3, the industry’s first and largest cloud storage provider. Managing trillions of objects in storage, retrieving them in sub-x ms, building software that deploys to tens of thousands of hosts, achieving 99.999999999% (you didn’t read that wrong, that’s 11 nines!) durability. These are just a few of the numbers that give you a sense of the scale of the exciting problems you will find every day working in Simple Storage Service (S3). Amazon S3 powers businesses across the globe that make the lives of consumers better daily. Whether its electronic content delivered to your home, technology that betters your remote working experience, allows you to plan travel to exotic places or simply get stuff delivered to your home. As a Software Development Manager (SDM) in S3, you get to deliver these capabilities and delight our customers through teams of talented engineers and leaders.As a SDM in the S3 Tachyon organization, you will define, plan and execute on deliverables that drive game changing improvements in how we launch new features automatically. We are constantly expanding our features and global footprint with new AWS regions. S3 is available in over 26 AWS regions around the world today and announced plans for eight more. You will interface daily with managers, engineers, and senior leadership within S3 and across AWS. You will be a key change agent to improve agility throughout the organization.Key job responsibilitiesAs the right candidate, you should be a self-starter with a bias towards independent problem solving. Clear communication and prioritization will be important as you plan, design, and deliver the best experiences. Your passion for the potential of using technology to improve people’s lives, and your experience leading complex technology projects will help you make strong business and technical judgments. You will be defining the technical vision, influence the product strategy and lead a team of passionate engineers.You will:Provide technical leadership and contributions to accelerate S3 delivery of new features.
Determine and drive engineering best practices across all of S3 and AWS.
Identify, track and resolve technical issues.
Present well-reasoned and data-driven solution proposals in both verbal and written form to gain support, prioritize your recommendations on the roadmaps, and deliver results.
Communicate clearly and concisely with executives, customers, business and technology teams.
Build a solution to track and verify dependencies and deliverables, and launching and coordinating new initiatives to improve our agility and time-to-market.
About the teamManagers at Amazon work on real world problems on a global scale, own their systems end-to-end, and influence the direction of our technology that impacts hundreds of millions customers around the world. Join a team of super smart, customer obsessed developers that think big and have fun.Upon joining S3, every employee is paired with a peer buddy who will help you to quickly come up to speed in understanding the technology we’re building, the tools we use and the business problems we’re trying to solve. We hire exceptional people and we recognize the importance of coaching others. We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location, job family, and job level. On our internal “Broadcast” video streaming website, you’ll find countless presentations by some of the brightest minds in computing discussing solutions to many of the exciting problems we’re solving in AWS today with new live-streaming videos added every week.Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.We have a diverse team and drive towards an inclusive culture and work environment. Our team is intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds.We are dedicated to supporting our new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.This role will sit in our new headquarters in Northern Virginia where Amazon will invest $2.5 billion dollars, occupy 4 million square feet of energy efficient office space, and create at least 25,000 new full-time jobs. Our employees and the neighboring community will also benefit from the associated investments from the Commonwealth including infrastructure updates, public transportation improvements, and new access to Reagan National Airport.By working together on behalf of our customers, we are building the future one innovative product, service, and idea at a time. Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come build the future with us.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS7+ years of experience working directly within engineering teams
Experience partnering with product OR program management teams
3+ years of people management experience, managing engineers
3+ years of experience architecting and designing (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
3+ years of experience owning 24x7x365 service operationsThis position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must attain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph and satisfy other security related requirements.Upon application you will be asked qualifying questions that will be used only in relation to the US Government Security Clearance required for this role.PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONSA leadership position in a team delivering solutions at scale.
Masters or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering with a minimum of 8 years of relevant software development and engineering management experience.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
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