Software Development Manager, Region Flexibility Engineering, Region Flexibility

The Region Flexibility Engineering organization supports the rapid global expansion of Amazon's infrastructure. Our projects support all Amazon businesses like Stores, Alexa, Kindle, Prime Video. We drive adoption of ever-evolving and latest AWS and non-AWS technologies, and work closely with AWS teams to improve AWS public offerings. Our organization focuses on robust and scalable solutions, simple to use, and delivered with engineering best practices.

We leverage and build foundational infrastructure capabilities, tools, and datasets that enable Amazon teams to delight our customers. With millions of people using Amazon’s products every day, we appreciate the importance of making our solutions “just work”.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Manager in the Region Flexibility Engineering organization, you will:

Lead your team to solve intriguing problems in software architecture with highly scalable solutions, guiding your team in choosing the right technologies

Directly influence your team’s product design and architectural direction while collaborating with different teams across the company

Define the strategy, prioritization and engineering roadmap for your team

Identify opportunities and implement innovative solutions to improve developer experience for thousands of teams at Amazon

Hire and develop the industry’s best talent to build a well-balanced team

Be supported by a large and experienced Principal Engineering community

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

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