Software Development Manager, Amazon FSx

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking an exceptional Software Development Manager to lead a team developing and operating the FSx service. You will guide architectural decisions, deliver high-performance file storage features, and collaborate with product managers and senior leaders to shape the roadmap.

You will mentor engineers, hire top talent, and partner with teams across AWS to drive innovative solutions at scale. This role emphasizes technical excellence, leadership, and customer obsession.

Qualifications

• 3+ years managing engineering teams.
• 7+ years working directly within engineering teams.
• 8+ years leading multi-tier web services development.
• Experience partnering with product management.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers delivering AWS FSx service.
• Hire, mentor, and promote engineers.
• Collaborate with cross-AWS teams to build new solutions.
• Establish processes to ensure high standards and reliability.
• Define technical roadmap with product managers and senior leadership.

Skills

Engineering team management

Software architecture

Web services design

Full SDLC experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Description

We are looking for an exceptional software development leader to help revolutionize cloud file storage for workloads like GPU-heavy AI/ML workloads, high-performance computing (HPC), and enterprise applications. Launched in 2018, Amazon FSx is an AWS service that provides fully managed and high-performance file storage that powers some of the most critical and largest-scale workloads running on AWS today.

Description

We are looking for an exceptional software development leader to help revolutionize cloud file storage for workloads like GPU-heavy AI/ML workloads, high-performance computing (HPC), and enterprise applications. Launched in 2018, Amazon FSx is an AWS service that provides fully managed and high-performance file storage that powers some of the most critical and largest-scale workloads running on AWS today.

AWS is a dynamic and rapidly growing business within Amazon, with over a million active customers in 190 countries around the world. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 90 services that range from compute, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management, developer, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), security, hybrid and enterprise applications. We maintain this rapid pace of innovation by treating each team like its own independent business inside AWS, directly accountable for their customers' satisfaction, service innovations, growth, and meeting revenue goals.

As a Software Development Manager, you will lead a team designing and building transformative new customer experiences, developer tooling, and automation for Amazon FSx. Delivering reliable and high-performance services and features at AWS scale requires technical leaders with extraordinary expertise and boundless creativity. At Amazon, managers will interact with customers, understand our business goals, and innovate rapidly, delivering high-quality and ground-breaking functionality.

Embark on a journey with us to build a new service for AWS. We need your passion, innovative ideas, and creativity to shape the future of a nascent service at Amazon scale with a team that is super smart, driven to serve customers, and fun to work with!

Key job responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers in delivery and operational excellence of an AWS service
• Hire, mentor, and promote engineers
• Work with teams across AWS to build new solutions
• Build mechanisms to drive the highest standards within your team
• Work with product managers, principal engineers, and senior leadership to define the technical roadmap and strategy for FSx

About The Team

About AWS

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Basic 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

USA, MA, Boston - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually

Company - Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Job ID: A3169081