Director of Network Software & Distributed Systems

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 264,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Seattle is seeking a Director of Software Development to lead a major engineering organization within AWS Network Engineering.

You will own the technical strategy, execution, and operational excellence for networking systems at scale and drive innovation across distributed systems and cloud-native infrastructure. You will partner across teams to ensure reliability, performance and cost efficiency while mentoring leaders and building a culture of ownership and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in CS, engineering or related field.
• 15+ years of software development experience.
• 10+ years of managing a team, including 5+ years of managing managers.
• Experience building and running highly available, large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven ability to lead across multiple locations.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end technical strategy and roadmap for a critical domain within AWS Network Engineering.
• Lead and grow a multi-location engineering organization focused on reliability and innovation.
• Drive architectural decisions for highly available, large-scale distributed systems serving millions of users.
• Partner with hardware, network operations, product management, and science teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Establish and maintain high standards for reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency.
• Promote on-call culture, incident response, and continuous improvement of availability metrics.

Skills

Distributed systems

Networking

Cloud infrastructure

People leadership

Technical strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Seattle is seeking a Director of Software Development to lead a major engineering organization within AWS Network Engineering.

You will own the technical strategy, execution, and operational excellence for networking systems at scale and drive innovation across distributed systems and cloud-native infrastructure. You will partner across teams to ensure reliability, performance and cost efficiency while mentoring leaders and building a culture of ownership and