Amazon.com Services LLC
Technology
SoftwareDevelopmentManager,AmazonOptics
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“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.
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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