Director of Software Development - Cloud Networking

Socket.dev; 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

Job summary

Amazon in Seattle, WA is seeking a Director of Software Development to lead a critical engineering organization within AWS Network Engineering. This role owns the technical strategy, execution, and operational excellence for networking systems at scale.

You will lead a large, multi-disciplinary team across locations, driving innovation in distributed systems, network control, and cloud-native infrastructure, with a focus on reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience
• 15+ years of software development experience
• 10+ years of managing a team
• 5+ years of managing managers
• Experience building and running highly available, large-scale, distributed systems - externally facing product or service
• 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 high-performing engineering organization across multiple locations
• Drive architectural decisions for highly available, large-scale distributed systems that serve millions of customers globally
• Partner cross-functionally with hardware engineering, network operations, product management, and science teams
• Establish and maintain high standards for reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency
• Drive operational excellence including on-call culture, incident response, and continuous improvement of availability metrics

Skills

Software development experience

Distributed systems

Leadership

Leading across locations

Operations excellence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

15+ years of software development experience

10+ years of managing a team

5+ years of managing managers

Job description

Amazon in Seattle, WA is seeking a Director of Software Development to lead a critical engineering organization within AWS Network Engineering. This role owns the technical strategy, execution, and operational excellence for networking systems at scale.

You will lead a large, multi-disciplinary team across locations, driving innovation in distributed systems, network control, and cloud-native infrastructure, with a focus on reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.