Amazon.com Services LLC

Technology

SoftwareDevelopmentManager,AmazonOptics

$203–275k New York, New York, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Software Development Manager, Amazon Optics at Amazon.com Services LLC. Skills: Software development management, System architecture, Service development. Accountable for team's structure, software, and strategic direction. Partner with engineers by delegating oversight”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Solve large scale customer and engineering problems

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years engineering team management, 7+ years working directly within engineering teams, 3+ years designing or architecting systems, 8+ years leading definition and development of multi tier web services, Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Nice to Have

Experience communicating with users, technical teams, and senior leadership, Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching, and managing Software Engineers

What You'll Do.

Accountable for team's structure

and strategic direction

Partner with engineers by delegating oversight

Create a sustainable workload

Build a team that delivers successfully

Use technical judgment to question proposals

Test assumptions to improve outcome

Independently own a software architecture

Work backwards from the customer

Define a vision of customer need

Tackle complex problems

Proactively mitigate risks

Provide team with necessary support

Take responsibility for systems end-to-end

Identify areas for new best practices

Develop new best practices and workflows

Prioritize and delegate work

Clear roadblocks to success

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Multiple Development, Operations and IT Support groups; Optics customers and partners; Talented and exciting engineers; Cross-functional teams

Communication Scope

Technical designs; Product strategy

Full Job Description

The Amazon Optics team is looking for a Software Development Manager who will join the team to help build and manage services that are used by AWS and Amazon employees to secure our physical sites. Our services allow our customers to protect all Amazon locations and preserves the trust that all Amazon users have in us. You’ll work with other engineers every day that are as passionate as you are about building systems that are an essential tool for our customers in keeping Amazon sites secure! The services you build are used around the world to secure assets for every single AWS customer! Your solutions will impact our customers directly! This job requires you to constantly hit the ground running and your ability to learn quickly and work on disparate and overlapping tasks will define your success. High Impact production issues often require coordination between multiple Development, Operations and IT Support groups, so you get to experience a breadth of impact with various groups. The ideal candidate is proactive, responsive, flexible, strategic and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment. They have a combination of in-depth knowledge of computer science principles and how to support a customer facing system. They demonstrate creative ideas to building services which improve usability and eliminate functional defects in production level code at the API, component, feature and UI levels. In this role, you’ll have independent technical ownership on new customer features and supporting architecture on a day to day and week to week basis. You’ll be working on the brain of Amazon Optics that is used to secure our customer spaces. This role will involve working with various Optics customers and partners to solve large scale customer and engineering problems and have fun working with a pool of talented and exciting engineers. We do happy hours, demos and tech talks to show off our work consistently and ensure everyone is growing within their role regu

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