Director, Software Dev - Network Monitoring & Remediation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. seeks a Director of Software Engineering to own end-to-end software services for network monitoring and remediation.

This role handles telemetry from over 3M devices, active probing, and correlation into actionable insights to guide remediation actions. You will scale a globally distributed engineering organization, drive innovation in high-scale data collection and processing, and partner with network engineering to ensure AWS has the best operating network

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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 an engineering organization across multiple locations with a culture of excellence.
• Drive architectural decisions for highly available, large-scale distributed systems serving millions of customers.
• Partner across hardware, network operations, product management, and science teams.
• Establish and maintain high standards for reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency.
• Drive on-call culture, incident response, and availability metrics improvement.

Skills

15+ years software development

10+ years managing a team

5+ years managing managers

Experience with highly available, big‑

Education

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

Job description

Director, Software Dev - Network Monitoring & Remediation

Job ID: 10579089 | Amazon Data Services, Inc.

This Director of Software Engineering will own the end-to-end software services for network monitoring and remediation. These services include capturing telemetry from our fleet of over 3M network devices, custom probing services that actively test network paths, services that correlate all of this telemetry into actionable insights, and services that enable remediation actions to resolve network impairments. The role requires a leader who can scale a globally distributed engineering organization, drive innovation in high scale data collection and processing, and who can partner closely with network engineering teams to ensure AWS has the best operating network infrastructure for our customers.

Key job 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 of engineers across multiple locations, building a culture of operational excellence, innovation, and customer obsession
• 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 to deliver integrated solutions
• Establish and maintain the highest standards for system reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency
• Drive operational excellence including on-call culture, incident response, and continuous improvement of availability metrics

Basic 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Track record leading through leaders, growing and leading engineering organizations of 100+ people
• Experience building and scaling a product or external service from early stage to enterprise-level success
• Multi-site leadership experience
• Remarkable technologist with high judgment and remarkable product vision
• Operational excellence background
• Deep experience with networking, distributed systems, or infrastructure at hyperscale

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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 - 264,100.00 - 350,000.00 USD annually