SDKs & Tools Engineering Lead

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Sign-on payments and RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off and parental leave

Job summary

Amazon seeks a Software Development Manager to lead a New York-based team of engineers who own several AWS SDKs. You will set technical direction, hire and grow engineers, and balance new features with long-term maintainability and backward compatibility, partnering with sister SDK teams to ship cross-language features.

This is a hands-on leadership role; you will stay close to designs, code reviews, and operational decisions while building a strong, sustainable team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years working directly within engineering teams.
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services.
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire, and develop a team of about 8-12 software engineers, and build a culture of ownership, high standards, and continuous learning.
• Grow engineers across the career ladder, including SDE I to SDE II and SDE II to Senior SDE promotions, and give every engineer clear, actionable feedback.
• Own the roadmap for your SDK portfolio by working backwards from customer feedback, GitHub issues, support cases, and usage data.
• Engage with the open-source community and keep your SDKs responsive, transparent, and trustworthy for developers.
• Make sound tradeoffs among speed, quality, and backward compatibility across a large, generated codebase.

Skills

Team management

Software design

Code review

Roadmap ownership

Open source engagement

Stakeholder collaboration

Hiring & mentoring

Job description

Amazon seeks a Software Development Manager to lead a New York-based team of engineers who own several AWS SDKs. You will set technical direction, hire and grow engineers, and balance new features with long-term maintainability and backward compatibility, partnering with sister SDK teams to ship cross-language features.

This is a hands-on leadership role; you will stay close to designs, code reviews, and operational decisions while building a strong, sustainable team.