S3 Foundations Engineering Manager: Scale, Modernize & Lead

Amazon; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Amazon S3 Software Development Manager in Arlington, VA leads a team building the front-end and back-end platform for the S3 Foundations group. You own deployment, validation, and observability of high-scale services across AWS Regions, driving modernization and AI-assisted development.

Lead a team of engineers, recruit top talent, and partner with senior leaders to deliver high-leverage capabilities that improve release velocity, safety, and operational excellence for S3 customers worldwide.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ 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.
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services 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.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and develop a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, deep ownership, and customer obsession.
• Own software deployment to one of the largest server fleets in the world, driving release velocity and safety for the systems that process every S3 request.
• Rewrite and modernize existing software and tune systems to drive efficiencies at massive scale, with outsized impact on AWS's cost, performance, and operations.
• Work across multiple S3 teams, coordinating feature validation and delivery for S3's front-end organization.
• Recruit and retain top engineering talent, and raise the bar on operational excellence as S3 continues to scale.

Skills

Team management

Software engineering

System design

Distributed systems

Release engineering

Performance optimization

Job description

Amazon S3 Software Development Manager in Arlington, VA leads a team building the front-end and back-end platform for the S3 Foundations group. You own deployment, validation, and observability of high-scale services across AWS Regions, driving modernization and AI-assisted development.

Lead a team of engineers, recruit top talent, and partner with senior leaders to deliver high-leverage capabilities that improve release velocity, safety, and operational excellence for S3 customers worldwide.