• 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

Are you interested in leading a team to build a world-class analytics, personalization, and user insights platform? Do you want to revolutionize the way people manage and derive insights from vast volume of data in the cloud? Do you want to have direct impact on a large number of AWS users? Are you interested to build scalable services and data pipelines and exploit data science and machine learning techniques to enable data-driven decisions?
The AWS User Insights Services team (UIS) is looking for a Software Development Manager to build and lead a fast growing team. As an engineering leader, you will have end-to-end responsibility, from setting up a highly performing team, helping define requirements, to delivering features that enables personalized experiences and recommendations.
If you are passionate about combining open source technologies, AWS services like Redshift and Kinesis, big data and ML techniques to help drive the future of AWS experience, we'd love to hear from you!
Inclusive Team Culture
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 16 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-life 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. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
Key job responsibilities

• Own design, development, test, deployment and operation of capabilities in AWS User Insights
• Advise and consult with other SDM’s and Senior Engineers on design and architecture
• Provide technical direction to your the team, and influence technical direction of stakeholder teams
• Establish and execute short and long-term architectural roadmaps
• Hire and mentor software/system engineers and actively participate in developing their career.
• Partner with Product Mangers and TPMs to accelerate delivery of solutions to our customers.
• Be responsible for ensuring sanity of architecture, operational excellence and data quality, delivering results on time.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA

• 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
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment

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.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $148,000/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. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.