Senior Software Manager – EMR Workload Platform & Scale

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 298,000; 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. seeks a Senior Software Development Manager to lead EMR's Workload Management organization, owning the technical vision, roadmap, and execution for workload orchestration, interactive analytics, identity and access control, and observability.

In this high-impact role, you will partner with product and engineering leadership across AWS to define a multi-year platform roadmap that raises the bar on scalability, reliability, and developer experience.

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 focused on workload orchestration, interactive sessions, and platform services.
• Define and execute a 1–3 year technical roadmap for EMR's workload platform, balancing near-term customer needs with long-term architectural investments including platform unification across multiple compute models.
• Drive architectural decisions for large-scale distributed workflow systems, including multi-tenant orchestration, session management, authentication services, and workload scheduling at massive scale.
• Drive orders-of-magnitude scalability improvements for job execution, enabling the industry's largest analytics customers to consolidate fragmented workloads into high-throughput environments that reduce cost and operational overhead.
• Partner with product and business stakeholders to translate customer requirements into engineering priorities, ensuring the team delivers features that have measurable customer impact and move adoption.
• Establish operational excellence standards for the platform, including availability, latency, and throughput targets, and lead the org in meeting and exceeding them as the service scales.
• Leverage agentic AI, LLM-powered code generation, and multi-agent orchestration to reimagine how data processing services are built and operated at scale, compressing delivery timelines and raising engineering velocity.
• Recruit, develop, and retain top engineering talent; build a diverse, high-performing organization with a strong pipeline of future leaders.
• Collaborate across EMR and AWS Data Processing with peer Sr SDMs and Directors to align on shared infrastructure, resolve cross-team dependencies, and contribute to org-wide engineering strategy.
• Represent the Workload Management organization in senior leadership reviews, customer engagements, and cross-org forums with clarity and conviction.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Team collaboration

Agile methods

Stakeholder alignment

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. seeks a Senior Software Development Manager to lead EMR's Workload Management organization, owning the technical vision, roadmap, and execution for workload orchestration, interactive analytics, identity and access control, and observability.

In this high-impact role, you will partner with product and engineering leadership across AWS to define a multi-year platform roadmap that raises the bar on scalability, reliability, and developer experience.