Software Development Manager, Builder Tools Language Experience

Amazon • Arlington, VA

3d

About The Position

The Language Experience team in Builder Tools is the center of excellence for
Amazon's use of programming languages, highly-leveraged shared software, and
application build tools.

Our tools are used in all aspects of the business, and their care and evolution
are of critical importance to the effectiveness of Amazon. We're looking for a
deeply technical leader interested in sustaining and evolving the shared
software platform used by nearly every service within the company. Those with
experience evolving broadly distributed and highly complex software libraries,
such as large open source projects and mission critical foundational software
stacks will be given an opportunity to have company wide impact.

As a Software Development Manager on the storage team, you will be responsible
for leading a strong team of software engineers to build a high performance
storage service / engine that is able to support all types of database
workloads. You will be responsible for mentoring and coaching a high performing
team of engineers with expertise in both low-level and distributed sysetms You
be responsible for the full development life cycle and and operation of
services. You will with the product team and other engineering teams to help
build the roadmap and ensure the right thing is being built and delivered to
customers.

The Builder Tools Language Experience team is responsible for the core tooling
used by builders across the company. We are responsible for the package
managers, compilers, 3rd party software registries, and servers frameworks that
the rest of the company builds their software on top of. We have a high talent
density of language experts supporting customers who need support pushing the
limits of their software stack.

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of engineering experience
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
• 3+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational 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

Nice To Haves

• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
• Experience developing compilers and build systems

Responsibilities

• Create, prioritize, communicate, manage, and execute roadmaps, projects, and other commitments.
• Set clear, measurable goals for the team and regularly communicate status of development, quality, operations, and system performance.
• Lead the team to improve processes to deliver higher software development velocity and quality.
• Lead team operational strategy defining metrics, improvements and support.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement through coaching, mentoring, and feedback.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed