We are looking for a Senior Manager, Software Development, to lead a team in designing and building systems and new initiatives inside the AWS Billing organisation.
The Products, Pricing, Offers, & Agreements (PPOA) team within AWS Billing owns the platform and services for configuring products and pricing and making this data available to customers, capturing and fulfilling commercial agreements, and adjusting charges. We are dedicated to seamlessly connecting sellers and buyers on the world's largest cloud marketplace. We empower sellers to go to market with Amazon-like speed and scale, providing an easy-to-use platform for managing commercial offers and agreements and serving as a trusted and compliant data source for automated, accurate, and consistent billing.
As a Senior Manager, Software Development you will help establish technical standards and drive the overall technical architecture and engineering practices. You will work on all aspects of the software development while focusing on the hardest problems. You will build high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our business needs. You will think globally when designing and building the software, ensuring the software is evolving in the right long term direction while bringing value to customers iteratively. You will coach, mentor, and guide the efforts of developers across multiple locations.
At AWS we value critical thinking, self-motivation, and the ability to deal with ambiguity. You should bring a cool head, strong technical background, be detail oriented, have excellent problem-solving abilities, and be an exemplary communicator. Your technical expertise and operational excellence will influence your team’s decisions and help drive secure and robust customer solutions. We love people who innovate, use data to make decisions, and can express themselves thoughtfully. We want you to be passionate about delivering a great customer experience, and to love driving the team to reach and exceed their goals.
Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.
We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location, job family, job level etc. Your manager can also help you find a mentor or two, because two is better than one. In addition to formal mentors, we work and train together so that we are always learning from one another, and we celebrate and support the career progression of our team members.
Key job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Build a best-in-class engineering team that delivers excellent results through rapid iterations
- Design and develop state-of-the-art approaches to solving complex and ambiguous problems
- Cultivate engineering and operational excellence through metrics and continuous learning
- Develop long term strategy for your programs and translate it into roadmap and action plan
- Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
- Mentor and grow superstar SDEs to take on increasingly higher responsibilities
A day in the life
Working closely with teams across AWS, you’ll see and feel the impact of your work on our customers. This is a high visibility and high impact role that will interact with all levels of AWS leadership. Our ideal candidate is excited about the incredible opportunity cloud computing represents and is deeply passionate about delivering the highest quality services. You’re naturally customer centric and thrive in a fast-paced environment that requires strong technical and business judgment and solid communication skills. The ideal candidate should also have demonstrated the ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.
About the team
About the team
AWS Billing is the team that delivers information to AWS customers about their activities in the cloud, enabling them to move into AWS with confidence. It enables service teams to do business with AWS customers: pricing products in a way that makes sense, expanding products across global sellers of record, and launching new products. The billing system needs to keep up with the total aggregate growth of AWS, and must do so while building important new functionality for our customers.
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. Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
About AWS
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.
Why 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 (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
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.
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.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Berlin, BE, DEU
- Proven industry experience managing large software development teams
- Several years of experience managing managers or leaders within development teams
- Proven track record of high-scale hiring and talent management (not dotted line) on teams of multiple disciplines/job families (such as development, operations, testing, and/or product management)
- Proven ability to dive deep into software and systems architecture
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Systems engineering experience (e.g., virtualization, hardware design, operating system tuning)
- Experience building scalable infrastructure software or distributed systems
- Experience building large-scale enterprise solutions
- Strong performance engineering fundamentals
- Many years of interacting regularly and directly with senior executives
- Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
- Strong systems operations skills
- Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals
- Strong understanding of/experience with cloud big data technologies
- Bachelor's degree OR PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline
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