Software Development Manager, Managed Fleets
Come help us build automation that manages millions of hosts for Amazon. The Managed Fleets team abstracts host and fleet management away from thousands of service teams across Amazon, freeing up engineers to build services and deliver value to our customers. To achieve this requires us to innovate and keep abreast with the latest cutting-edge technologies.
We are looking for a proven leader to help lead teams of exceptional software engineers to tackle some of the hardest problems at global scale. We want someone who has a proven record of delivering highly operable and maintainable software on time, has relentlessly high standards for themselves and everyone around them and who will drive engineering best practices throughout the team while constantly looking for ways to make the systems we own better.
Ideal Candidate
* Be great fun to work with. Our company credo is "Work hard. Have fun. Make history". The right candidate will love what they do and instinctively know how to make work fun.
* Enjoys being a great people manager. Building, motivating and mentoring a world-class software engineering team is the most important part of this role. You should have a proven track record in recruiting and retaining top talent and excel in day‐to‐day people and performance management tasks.
* Brings a strong set of project & product management experience.
* The successful candidate will create a team vision and product roadmap and set SMART goals for the team and individuals alike.
* You will be intensely customer focused: you understand your customers' challenges and are constantly looking for ways to solve them.
* You have great communication skills, and enjoy working in a fast‐paced, collaborative team environment.
Basic Qualifications
* 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
* 5+ 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 live site operations.
* Experience partnering with product or program management teams.
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.
* Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective, product software engineers.
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. Amazon welcomes applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability or other legally protected status.
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