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Software Development Manager - AWS Identity Resource Management

Herndon, VA

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Are you interested in building a search engine that scales for billions of objects with a search latency in milliseconds? Does the engineering challenge of building complex relationship graphs with billions of nodes excite you?

AWS has the most services and more features within those services, than any other cloud providerfrom infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databasesto emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. AWS Platform is the glue that holds the AWS ecosystem together. Whether its Identity features such as access management and sign on, cryptography, console, builder & developer tools, and even projects like automating all of our contractual billing systems, AWS Platform is always innovating with the customer in mind. The AWS Platform team sustains over 750 million transactions per second.

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The AWS Identity team owns and operates highly scalable, highly available distributed systems that are used by all AWS customers and internal service teams alike. We are pioneers in areas such as identity, access management, security and providing massively scaled, distributed platform capabilities to all of AWS. We enable our customers to control and secure the most sensitive data on the internet. We are building some of the largest and most complex distributed systems in the world, and we need brilliant engineering leaders to work with us on this new initiative!

We are building a new cloud platform that dramatically simplifies how enterprise customers manage and control access to their AWS resources. We are looking for a talented engineering leader who will be responsible for owning, driving and evangelizing this space focused on enabling customers to manage and secure their AWS workloads at scale.

This position represents a rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor and help shape the technology, product, and business. A successful candidate will bring deep technical and software expertise, strong business acumen and judgment, the ability to define visionary, ground breaking products, ability to hire and lead a team, and the desire to have an industry-wide impact.

Key Responsibilities
  • Architecture, design, code ownership for long-term product strategy for AWS Resource management services
  • Own the development of low-latency, high-availability search and discovery services
  • Ownership and continuous improvement of all operational metrics and automation tools for your team's software
  • Manage communication with stakeholders and execute against project plans and delivery commitments.
  • Coach and manage high-performing engineering team
About Us
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-live balance. It isn't about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it's about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Hybrid Work Options Available
We value your time to innovate and recognize the need for heads down time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords engineers with options to work in the office every day or work remotely in a flexible hybrid schedule if located near one of our Amazon offices.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Master's/Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or engineering
  • Proven skills designing and developing simple solutions to complex, customer challenges
  • 7+ years' experience developing software
  • 5+ years' experience managing software development teams
  • Experience leading and developing highly-skilled software engineering teams
  • Experience forming teams and recruiting software engineers and managers
  • Good understanding of various platforms and technologies (AWS, Java, Python, C#, Ruby)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Understanding of web services technologies such as HTTP, WSDL, XSD, and REST
  • Understanding of Identity Systems like LDAP and/or Active Directory
  • Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures
  • Strong understanding of system and application performance characteristics
  • Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
  • 3+ years of working with large distributed systems
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us .

Client-provided location(s): Herndon, VA 20170, USA
Job ID: Amazon-1204406
Employment Type: Other

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