Software Development Manager, Amazon's Internal Build System - Build Compute Team (AWS)

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

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead one of the largest build fleets, drive high-quality engineering solutions, and hire and mentor top engineers. The role partners with product and program management to deliver scalable builder tools used by Amazon engineers globally.

You will own technical direction, define roadmaps, and work with multiple teams to ensure reliability and fast delivery for a vast developer community.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management.
• 7+ years working directly within engineering teams.
• 3+ years 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.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Connect with customers to define user case and product road map for the brazil compute platform.
• Handle and manage operational events, lead for event resolution.
• Lead team executing against key projects and deliverables.
• Hire and develop and grow engineers on the team.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Team management

System design

Web services

Cross-functional collaboration

Product management collaboration

Job description

Software Development Manager, Amazon's Internal Build System - Build Compute Team

Job ID: 10507224 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Are you passionate about both software development and making your fellow developer’s life easier? The Amazon Build Team owns the tools that allow developers across Amazon to build quickly and correctly. As we embrace a world of continuous delivery the number of package builds each day is well into the millions. At the same time we are adding developers in more locations around the globe so we need to be a global build system responsive in any region. The build team is at the heart of shaping what is possible with the collective set of Builder Tools (BT) that are used daily by virtually every engineer at Amazon.
If you’re a creative thinker and you get excited by the idea of solving hard technical challenges to empower developers and ultimately help Amazon continue to build great software, fast, come join us!
AWS has the most services and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. AWS Platform is the glue that holds the AWS ecosystem together. Whether its Identity features such as access management and sign on, cryptography, console, builder & developer tools, and even projects like automating all of our contractual billing systems, AWS Platform is always innovating with the customer in mind. The AWS Platform team sustains over 750 million transactions per second.

Responsibilities

• Managing one of the largest build fleet in the industry performing thousands of millions of package builds everyday.
• Directly hiring, retaining and growing top engineering talent for your team.
• Having a clear technical voice, working with and partnering with other teams to deliver a highly scalable and reliable service, meeting the needs of Amazon business and its engineers.
• Continuously and reliably delivering high quality technical solutions to delight your customers.
• Operating a critical service for Amazon
• Creating annual plans for the Source team and contributing to the annual plans of the larger organization delivering products for Amazon engineers.

Learn and Be Curious. We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location, job family, job level etc. Your manager can also help you find a mentor or two, because two is better than one. In addition to formal mentors, we work and train together so that we are always learning from one another, and we celebrate and support the career progression of our team members.

Inclusion and Diversity. Our team is diverse! We drive towards an inclusive culture and work environment. We are intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. Team members are active in Amazon’s 10+ affinity groups, sometimes known as employee resource groups, which bring employees together across businesses and locations around the world. These range from groups such as the Black Employee Network, Latinos at Amazon, Indigenous at Amazon, Families at Amazon, Amazon Women and Engineering, LGBTQ+, Warriors at Amazon (Military), Amazon People With Disabilities, and more.

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Key job responsibilities

• Connect with customers to define user case and product road map for the brazil compute platform.
• Handle and manage operational events, call lead for event resolution.
• Lead team executing against key projects and deliverables.
• Hire and develop and grow engineers on the team.

About the team

Why Amazon Software Builder Experience (ASBX):

The mission of ASBX is to improve the software development experience across Amazon. Our goal is to remove common roadblocks for software development engineers, data engineers, system engineers, and applied scientists by automating updates, accelerating deployment processes, and reducing unnecessary interruptions. The team focuses on creating tools and workflows that give developers more time to innovate and platforms for task management. Our ultimate aim is to make Amazon the best place for software builders to work and innovate.

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
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams
• 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

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

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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 .

USA, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually

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