Software Development Manager, API Gateway Workflows Team

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

Benefits offered by this job

RSU stock

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon seeks an engineering leader for the API Gateway Data Plane, based in Seattle, WA. You will grow a diverse team of engineers and own the development lifecycle of critical services supporting millions of API requests, partnering with product management to enhance customer experience.

You will set team standards, drive inclusive culture, and deliver scalable, latency‑sensitive software on time while balancing operational excellence with feature development, in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams.
• 3+ years designing or architecting scalable systems.
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services.
• Knowledge of SDLC, coding standards, source control, build processes, testing, livesite operations.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the outcomes of a team delivering high-impact software that protects millions of customer workloads
• Manage team performance, career development, and growth through regular coaching, mentorship, and feedback
• Build and execute technical roadmaps in partnership with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to ensure the right work is prioritized and delivered on time
• Evaluate trade-offs between operational excellence and feature development, balancing short-term needs with long-term architectural goals
• Foster a positive, inclusive team culture where engineers are empowered to deliver their best work
• Drive engineering best practices including code quality, testing, CI/CD, and operational readiness
• Collaborate cross-functionally with security, networking, and infrastructure teams to deliver integrated solutions

Skills

Team management

Distributed systems

Software architecture

Multi-tier web services

DevOps / CI-CD

Security collaboration

Product/PM partnering

Job description

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

API Gateway is the front-door of the Serverless revolution, an approach that lets customers turn business logic and application code into scalable, fault-tolerant production without requiring every developer to become an expert in deployment technologies and infrastructure management. API Gateway turns daunting tasks such as traffic management, authentication, authorization, metering, monitoring, and API versioning into easily configurable steps.

We are hiring engineering leaders who have a passion for reducing the time it takes for developers to ship scalable code. In this role, you will grow a diverse team of talented engineers. You will own the development lifecycle of existing services supporting that, partnering with product management to enhance the customer experience. You will work with engineers to deliver scalable and latency sensitive software on time. You will set standards for the team, and drive an inclusive culture.

If you are excited about cloud computing and architecting highly available and large-scale services used by millions of users, then join us in making the Serverless revolution ubiquitous.

Key job responsibilities

You enjoy being a great people manager. You know how to build, motivate, and mentor a team of passionate technologists. You measure and celebrate successes. You have experience managing a product roadmap. You use data to drive alignment. You care about building an inclusive team culture. You recognize and leverage the strengths of your employees and challenge them to continue to grow.

• Own the outcomes of a team delivering high-impact software that protects millions of customer workloads
• Manage team performance, career development, and growth through regular coaching, mentorship, and feedback
• Build and execute technical roadmaps in partnership with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to ensure the right work is prioritized and delivered on time
• Evaluate trade-offs between operational excellence and feature development, balancing short-term needs with long-term architectural goals
• Foster a positive, inclusive team culture where engineers are empowered to deliver their best work
• Drive engineering best practices including code quality, testing, CI/CD, and operational readiness
• Collaborate cross-functionally with security, networking, and infrastructure teams to deliver integrated solutions

A day in the life

You will spend your day meeting with people on your team and providing individual career development pathways for them. You will provide a strategic vision for you team and ensure that a high quality bar is maintained on the projects that your team delivers. You will work with other leaders across the organization to ensure API Gateway is delivering high impact projects for our customers.

About the team

Our team is part of the Amazon API Gateway Data Plane organization. We own critical components of the control plane, configuration propagation, and placement systems that determine how customer workloads are deployed and managed. Our work directly impacts the reliability and performance of millions of API requests, ensuring customers can scale seamlessly. You'll lead engineers solving complex distributed systems challenges at massive scale in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.

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.

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