Software Development Manager, Region Flexibility and Efficiency

DESCRIPTION

As a software development manager in the Region Flexibility and Efficiency organization, you will play an essential role in building the software services, frameworks, and components at the forefront of Amazon's service-oriented architecture. You will be integral in shaping the direction of our team, how we use state-of-the-art technologies to influence the way thousands of engineers interact with our products. You will be empowered to define the goals, strategy, roadmap and success metrics for this brand new team.

In this role you will lead our infrastructure-efficiency and cross region data-migration charter at Amazon scale. The systems in scope are production, mission-critical services processing millions of transactions, running across a large fleet of AWS accounts and infrastructure. Efficiency gains translate into large, fleet-wide capacity and cost impact.

You'll lead a team of 10-12 engineers driving large-scale DRAM allocation reduction across these production fleets and building the tooling and agentic workflows that make multi-region dataset migrations safe, automated, and repeatable, without compromising the availability of systems Amazon's customers and internal teams depend on every day.

This role spans people leadership, technical depth, and cross-org execution. You'll grow and develop the team, own the roadmap, dive deep on system design and efficiency, and influence partners across multiple orgs to deliver outcomes end-to-end. The team has a strong track record of realized efficiency savings and of automation that has cut manual analysis from weeks to hours, all applied safely against production workloads.

Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will:

• Lead your team to solve intriguing problems in software architecture with highly scalable solutions, guiding your team in choosing the right technologies
• Define the strategy, prioritization and engineering roadmap for your team & influence across
• Directly influence your team’s product design and architectural direction while collaborating with different teams across the company
• Hire and develop the industry’s best talent to build highly collaborative and functional teams
• Identify opportunities and implement innovative solutions to improve developer experience for thousands of teams at Amazon

A day in the life
In this role, you will manage products and programs and deliver through a highly collaborative team that you help build. You will partner closely with senior leaders across Amazon, and frequently influence their programs and product roadmaps. One day you may be contributing to strategy documents, and another day developing your engineering talent. You will also regularly improve product operational metrics and drive operational excellence initiatives that measurably improve your team’s productivity and job satisfaction.

If this role sounds interesting to you, please send us your application using the Apply Now function. We look forward to hearing from you!

About the team
The Region Flexibility and Efficiency organization supports the rapid global expansion of Amazon's infrastructure. Our products support all Amazon businesses like Worldwide Stores, Alexa, Kindle, and Prime Video. We drive adoption of ever-evolving and state-of-the-art technologies, and work closely with AWS teams to improve AWS public offerings. Our organization focuses on robust and scalable solutions that are simple to use and are delivered utilizing engineering best practices. We leverage and build foundational infrastructure capabilities, tools, and datasets that enable Amazon teams to delight our customers.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 4+ years of engineering team management experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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

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

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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, CA, Sunnyvale - 212,700.00 - 287,700.00 USD annually