SDKs & Tools Engineering Manager — Lead Dev Experience

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle seeks a Software Development Manager to lead a Seattle-based team of engineers who own multiple AWS SDKs.

You will set technical direction, own the roadmap, and stay hands-on with designs, code reviews, and operational decisions. You will hire and grow engineers, balance new features with long-term maintainability and backward compatibility, and collaborate with sister SDK teams to ship features across languages.

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, 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 leadership

Software design

Code reviews

Open source

Roadmap planning

Hiring / mentoring

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle seeks a Software Development Manager to lead a Seattle-based team of engineers who own multiple AWS SDKs.

You will set technical direction, own the roadmap, and stay hands-on with designs, code reviews, and operational decisions. You will hire and grow engineers, balance new features with long-term maintainability and backward compatibility, and collaborate with sister SDK teams to ship features across languages.