Software Development Manager, Leo Autopilot

Amazon • Redmond, WA

21h

About The Position

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to
deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of
existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses,
and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations
operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

As a Software Development Manager (SDM) you will be responsible for owning the
team’s roadmap and ensuring the strategic visions is executed. You will be
responsible for gathering customer requirements, project prioritization,
software quality, and system delivery. You will help mentor, develop, and the
guide the engineers responsible for the system development.

You will need to clearly create, manage project roadmaps and timelines, while
proactively managing risks. You will participate in executive level
communication, forge strong partnerships across the board and effective peer
level/team level communication. You will have opportunities to work on both
complex roadmaps and interact with business stakeholders directly. To be
successful in this role, you should be comfortable gathering requirements across
the many stakeholders with complex and frequently unknown solutions, creating
and maintaining technical project plans, and diving into the technical details
to understand the nuances and complexities involved. Your work will interface
with various subsystems within Amazon Leo.

The ideal candidate will be detail oriented, an excellent communicator, have
strong organizational skills, able to work independently, can juggle multiple
tasks at once, and ensure deliverables meet requirements and deadlines. You
should have strong knowledge software engineering practices, enjoy mentoring and
developing the engineers that work on your team.

Export Control Requirement:
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S.
citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder),
or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

About the team
The team builds and maintains the software services responsible for building and
managing critical configuration for Leo satellites.

Requirements

• 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
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Nice To Haves

• 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 in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment

Responsibilities

• Build, lead and manage a diverse team of engineers .
• Provide technical guidance for the team in addressing projects with broad scope and limited definition to ensure test and design objectives are met.
• Define team growth expectations and organization strategy.
• Coordinate internal and external resources to ensure team and project success.
• Communicate fluidly across a variety of teams to identify product risks and how they will be addressed to ensure mission success.
• Juggle multiple priorities while optimizing the system and schedule.
• Apply critical thinking in complex situations and ambiguous environments

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed