Software Development Manager (EC2)

Come help us build automation that manages millions of hosts for Amazon. The Managed Fleets team abstracts host and fleet management away from thousands of service teams across Amazon, freeing up engineers to build services and deliver value to our customers. To achieve this requires us to innovate and keep abreast with the latest cutting edge technologies.

About the Role

We are looking for a proven leader to help lead teams of exceptional software engineers to tackle some of the hardest problems at global scale. The ideal candidate will have a proven record of delivering highly operable and maintainable software on time, relentlessly high standards for themselves and others, and will drive engineering best practices throughout the team while constantly looking for ways to improve the systems they own.

• Be great fun to work with and embody our credo: "Work hard. Have fun. Make history".
• Enjoy being a people manager: building, motivating, and mentoring a world class software engineering team.
• Have a strong set of project & product management experience, creating a team vision and product roadmap and setting SMART goals.
• Be intensely customer focused, understanding customer challenges and constantly seeking solutions.
• Communicate effectively and thrive in a fast paced, collaborative team environment.

Basic Qualifications

• 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 in engineering team management.
• Experience in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services.
• Experience partnering with product and program management teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.
• Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching, and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and effectiveness.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is committed to diversity within its workforce.

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