Senior Software Leader — S3 Tables, Flexible Hours

Amazon

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 220,100 - 297,700

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Software Development Manager for S3 Tables in Seattle. You will own the technical vision, multi-year roadmap, and execution for a multi-team organization handling exabyte-scale metadata, transactions, and integration with Iceberg.

Your leadership will drive performance, cost efficiency, and open-source collaboration at a cloud scale. You will partner with product, business, and AWS analytics leadership to translate customer needs into priorities, establishing

Qualifications

10+ years of engineering experience.
5+ years of engineering team management experience.
10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience.
Experience partnering with product or program management teams.
Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow a multi-team organization of senior engineers and engineering managers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, deep ownership, and customer obsession.
Define and execute a 1 to 3 year technical roadmap, balancing near-term customer wins with long-horizon bets on query performance, table maintenance, metadata scale, and Iceberg evolution.
Drive architectural decisions for distributed systems at exabyte scale, including metadata services, compaction and optimization pipelines, snapshot and transaction management, and engine integrations.
Make S3 Tables the highest performing, most cost effective home for Apache Iceberg anywhere, and contribute back to the Iceberg open source project.
Partner with product, business, and AWS analytics leadership to translate customer needs into engineering priorities that move adoption and trust.
Establish operational excellence standards across availability, durability, latency, and throughput, and lead the org in exceeding them as the service scales.
Recruit, develop, and retain top talent, building a diverse, high performing organization with a strong pipeline of future leaders.
Represent S3 Tables in senior leadership reviews, customer engagements, and external forums with clarity and conviction.