Sw. Dev Manager - .NET SDK, AWS SDKs and Tools

Amazon • Seattle, WA

4d

About The Position

The AWS SDKs are the gateway to the 300+ AWS services, and are uniquely placed
as the primary library for developers the world over to those services. The .NET
SDK, high level libraries, and Powershell tools set the pace for development on
AWS for .NET customers. We build out in the open, are passionate about developer
experience for .NET customers on AWS, and are currently looking for a seasoned
manager to help us make this experience even better.

Does working with popular and high-impact AWS SDKs interest you? Do you thrive
well in a self-directed, open source environment? Do you think you have ideas
for the next set of developer experiences, libraries and tools for AWS?

We do all of this and more regularly, and with a healthy work-life balance too.
Apply now!

The mission of the AWS SDK teams is to simplify the use of AWS for developers
and allow them to build secure, reliable, idiomatic, and performant applications
using any AWS service in the most popular programming languages. We achieve this
mission by 1) vending SDKs that cover all AWS service APIs, 2) driving
consistencies across AWS Services APIs, 3) owning the overall developer
experience in all the supported programming languages, and 4) delivering a set
of libraries that provide higher level abstraction and reduce the complexity of
using AWS Services.

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
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
• 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 partnering with product or program management teams

Nice To Haves

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

Responsibilities

• Lead engineers to own and maintain the AWS SDKs and tools for .NET, guiding them on scoping and execution of features and issues.
• Understand how an open source project works and meld that with internal processes
• Manage the careers of all the engineers in the team
• Work with SDK leadership in taking on new projects, do yearly planning
• Work with other AWS teams to deliver cross-org features.
• Handle routine scrum activities
• Review asks from other AWS teams and participate (or own) its design and delivery in the 13 SDKs
• Work with AWS teams trying to get their new features released via the SDKs
• Propose new ways of building the SDKs.

Benefits

• Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets.
• The base pay for this position ranges from $166,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/year in our highest geographic market.
• Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
• Amazon is a total compensation company.
• Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

What This Job Offers

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