Software Development Manager, EC2 Core Product Management
Amazon · Seattle, Washington, USA ·
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- Management
EC2, a part of Amazon Web Services, is a fast-growing business within Amazon that provides cost-effective, simplified cloud computing resources to businesses of all sizes around the world. With AWS, you can requisition compute power, storage, databases, and many other services paying only for the necessary resources.
Are you interested in working on products, and solving world-class problems that are disrupting the cloud-computing industry and serves as a foundation for AWS? Does solving hard technical challenges at industry-leading scale appeal to you? Do you like working on products that are providing real value to AWS customers? If so, please join us at EC2 as we are growing our product teams quite rapidly and looking for the best software developers in the industry!
This role is within the EC2 Capacity Optimization organization. We are responsible for writing software that perfects capacity elasticity, delivering the best possible instance lifecycle experience with optimum hardware and software configurations, managing our high growth multi-billion-dollar worldwide fleet hardware for optimal utilization, and expanding the AWS footprint in many new regions every quarter.
This team owns developing services that optimally packs client instances onto servers, tests these configurations and increases the utilization of hardware. The position requires close collaboration with subject matter experts launching enterprise wide EC2 instances, automating solutions that detect and predict capacity utilization, and optimizing capacity availability on behalf of our customers. The individual in this role will be looked upon for technical leadership, which includes working through technical ambiguity on problems that have not been solved elsewhere, providing design and prototyping of technical solutions, hands-on coding and working with other senior engineers and AWS service teams to improve service scalability and performance. You will use statistical and analytic methods to systemize the identification of bottlenecks, root cause issues and orchestrate actions across our capacity management infrastructure for remediation of issues. You will have a major influence coaching others across the organization, collaborating with software development teams, and leading local development for improved operational excellence. You'll mentor other engineers, participate in designing new software, perform code reviews, and most importantly, ship code!
Key job responsibilities
What we are looking for: Successful candidates for this position must have experience in growing and coaching a highly qualified team of software engineers. They must possess strong verbal and written communication skills, be self-driven, and deliver high quality results in a fast-paced environment. You will be able to Think Big to develop a plan and invent mechanisms that scale to meet the broad and diverse needs of teams across Amazon. You will have a strong customer obsession, working to deeply understand the needs of your customers and relentlessly looking to improve their experience and make them more productive
About the team
Utility Computing (UC)
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 customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
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 that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
About AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Are you interested in working on products, and solving world-class problems that are disrupting the cloud-computing industry and serves as a foundation for AWS? Does solving hard technical challenges at industry-leading scale appeal to you? Do you like working on products that are providing real value to AWS customers? If so, please join us at EC2 as we are growing our product teams quite rapidly and looking for the best software developers in the industry!
This role is within the EC2 Capacity Optimization organization. We are responsible for writing software that perfects capacity elasticity, delivering the best possible instance lifecycle experience with optimum hardware and software configurations, managing our high growth multi-billion-dollar worldwide fleet hardware for optimal utilization, and expanding the AWS footprint in many new regions every quarter.
This team owns developing services that optimally packs client instances onto servers, tests these configurations and increases the utilization of hardware. The position requires close collaboration with subject matter experts launching enterprise wide EC2 instances, automating solutions that detect and predict capacity utilization, and optimizing capacity availability on behalf of our customers. The individual in this role will be looked upon for technical leadership, which includes working through technical ambiguity on problems that have not been solved elsewhere, providing design and prototyping of technical solutions, hands-on coding and working with other senior engineers and AWS service teams to improve service scalability and performance. You will use statistical and analytic methods to systemize the identification of bottlenecks, root cause issues and orchestrate actions across our capacity management infrastructure for remediation of issues. You will have a major influence coaching others across the organization, collaborating with software development teams, and leading local development for improved operational excellence. You'll mentor other engineers, participate in designing new software, perform code reviews, and most importantly, ship code!
Key job responsibilities
What we are looking for: Successful candidates for this position must have experience in growing and coaching a highly qualified team of software engineers. They must possess strong verbal and written communication skills, be self-driven, and deliver high quality results in a fast-paced environment. You will be able to Think Big to develop a plan and invent mechanisms that scale to meet the broad and diverse needs of teams across Amazon. You will have a strong customer obsession, working to deeply understand the needs of your customers and relentlessly looking to improve their experience and make them more productive
About the team
Utility Computing (UC)
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 customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
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 that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
About AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.