AWS Software Development Manager, Elastic Load Balancing

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 184,900 - 250,200; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is seeking a senior engineering leader to run the ELB Data Plane team. You will guide design, development, and operations for ELB data plane software, ensuring scalability and reliability at global scale.

You will partner with senior AWS leaders, product managers, and cross-functional teams to align on priorities, drive architecture decisions, and deliver business outcomes while growing and mentoring engineers on the team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 5+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience.
• 3+ years of designing or architecting systems experience.
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers in designing, building, and operating ELB data plane systems at massive scale
• Define technical vision and roadmap for data plane capabilities including routing, scaling, and deployment
• Driver operational excellence across the team, maintaining high availability for a service that underpins millions of customer workloads
• Partner with senior AWS leaders, product managers, and cross-functional teams to align on priorities and deliver business outcomes
• Hire, develop, and retain top engineering talent while fostering a culture of ownership and innovation
• Make sound trade-offs between short-term delivery and long-term architectural investments
• Establish goals, prioritize work across your team and partner teams, and focus on the inputs that drive the most impactful results

Skills

Engineering team management

People leadership

System design & architecture

Roadmap & vision

Stakeholder alignment

Hiring & mentoring

Trade-off decisions

Job description

Description

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we're looking for talented people who want to help.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we're looking for talented people who want to help.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers in designing, building, and operating ELB data plane systems at massive scale
• Define technical vision and roadmap for data plane capabilities including routing, scaling, and deployment
• Driver operational excellence across the team, maintaining high availability for a service that underpins millions of customer workloads
• Partner with senior AWS leaders, product managers, and cross-functional teams to align on priorities and deliver business outcomes
• Hire, develop, and retain top engineering talent while fostering a culture of ownership and innovation
• Make sound trade-offs between short-term delivery and long-term architectural investments
• Establish goals, prioritize work across your team and partner teams, and focus on the inputs that drive the most impactful results

A day in the life

You will split your time between technical leadership and people development. On any given day, you might review a system design for a new scaling mechanism, meet with a principal engineer to align on architecture direction, conduct a 1:1 with a direct report on career growth, and join an operational review to assess service health. Your stakeholders include senior AWS executives, partner service teams, and customers ranging from startups to the largest enterprises in the world.

About The Team

The ELB Data Plane team builds and operates the software that processes every byte of customer traffic flowing through Elastic Load Balancing. We are a group of builders who care deeply about performance, reliability, and customer trust. We operate with high ownership, move fast on what matters, and support each other in delivering results at scale.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 5+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
• 3+ 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

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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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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually

Company

Amazon Data Services, Inc.

Job ID: A10483392