Step Functions is a visual workflow service that helps developers use AWS services to build distributed applications, automate processes, orchestrate microservices, and create data and machine learning (ML) pipelines. Join us to lead a team inventing the way builders develop serverless applications that run at cloud scale.
We are looking for an experienced Software Development Manager (SDM) to lead a team of software engineers to deliver an innovative developer experience that makes it easy to build applications that scale. You will use your technical expertise and customer obsession to guide delivery of strategic projects with bottom-line impact on our business and competitive position. You will use your business acumen to make trade-offs between tactical, operational, and long-term objectives. Your skills coaching and mentoring will help team members reach heights they never thought possible. You will have the opportunity and autonomy to take the team in new directions that meet customers where they are and will be.
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
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Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
1. Hire, manage, and grow your team of diverse engineers.
2. Create and maintain short and long-term product and tech roadmap.
3. Lead delivery of projects with the right sense of urgency that balances the need to innovate quickly with long term sustainability and quality
4. Influence stakeholders within and outside of the org and be able to work across multiple orgs.
5. Deliver value for our customers while also focusing on building the right tech for operational excellence, maintainability and future extensibility.
6. Set the right operational models for the teams to succeed.
7. Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively at multiple levels of management, building trust across the organization, and demonstrating discretion with sensitive information.
8. Demonstrate the ability to break abstract goals into attainable, measurable work items.
9. Be comfortable working in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment while driving teams to complete goals and execute across multiple parallel running technical projects.
Basic Qualifications:
- 2+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of engineering 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
Preferred Qualifications:
- 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
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The base salary for this position ranges from $171,400/year up to $286,200/year. Salary is based on a number of factors 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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
