Job Description
Lead a team of software development engineers to design, develop, and deploy complex, distributed systems and services for Amazon's cloud infrastructure.
Amazon's cloud infrastructure is one of the largest and most complex networks in the world. We build and operate the network that underpins our customers' businesses, aiming to provide a network that is indistinguishable from perfect. Our Network Availability Engineering (NAE) team provides customers with tools and services to monitor the network, alarm, and automatically mitigate and remediate events. Our mission is to maximise network availability, reducing network impact through automation.
As a leader in our team, you will own the design, development, testing, and deployment of your systems and services. You will draw from a breadth and depth of technical expertise to mentor engineers, complete hands-on technical work, and provide leadership on complex technical issues. You will work closely with partner and customer teams within the broader Amazon organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and hire a world-class software development team.
- Lead the design, implementation, and deployment of successful, highly distributed, large-scale services.
- Serve as a lead on demanding, complex, multi-team, cross-functional projects.
- Actively participate in hiring talented people and assisting in the career development of people within and outside your team.
- Play a critical role in the broader business planning, working closely with senior executives to develop business targets and resource requirements.
- Define long-term technical and business strategy and goals.
- Understand business context to decisions made within and across groups.
- Maintain a current understanding of industry and technology trends.
- Work as part of a diverse team with some of the best minds in the industry, across the world.
- Own your service(s) end-to-end.
- Have the opportunity to lead and participate in the solution of problems not yet solved by the industry.
Requirements
- Master's degree.
- 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 delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment.
- Experience in engineering team management.
- 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 managing a team of high calibre Software Engineers developing complex, world class, scalable software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.
- Experience with the scrum methodology.
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
- Demonstrated proficiency in cloud technologies, particularly AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, and RDS, and a deep understanding of cloud architecture and best practices.
- A track record of driving innovation within a team or organisation, including the ability to inspire creativity, champion new ideas, and implement cutting-edge technologies and methodologies.
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon.