Manager, Software Development, ENA Express Team, Annapurna Labs

Amazon; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 213,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon’s Annapurna Labs seeks a hands-on Software Development Manager to lead the ENA Express team, driving next‑generation SRD‑based EC2 networking features.

You will mentor engineers, shape software architecture, and partner with hardware teams to optimize performance and reliability at scale.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 3+ years of C/C++ or Rust development experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with network packet processing and embedded environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the ENA Express software team to deliver features and improvements.
• Collaborate with hardware and software teams across EC2 networking.
• Provide technical guidance, reviews, and mentoring to engineers.

Skills

Engineering management

C/C++/Rust development

Network packet processing

Embedded environment

Job description

Manager, Software Development, ENA Express Team, Annapurna Labs

AWS Networking builds the infrastructure that powers every customer workload in the cloud. We are seeking a hands‑on Software Development Manager to lead the ENA Express team.

ENA Express is a next‑generation EC2 networking feature that leverages the Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol — developed by AWS — to deliver industry‑leading networking performance: dramatically lower tail latency, higher bandwidth utilization, and consistent packet delivery at scale.

About the team: The organization you would be joining is Annapurna Labs, an integral part of AWS that develops hardware and software components that are critical building blocks for EC2 infrastructure. Every instance in EC2 is running some type of hardware designed by Annapurna Labs. We specialize in designing software, systems, and chips that optimize the AWS customer experience.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management 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
• 3+ years of C or C++ or Rust development experience
• 5+ years of hands‑on engineering experience, maintaining active programming proficiency
• Hands‑on experience with Network packet processing, embedded environment (on NIC development)

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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USA, CA, Cupertino - 212,700.00 - 287,700.00 USD annually

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