Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a fast-growing business that provides cost effective easy-to-use cloud computing resources to businesses of all sizes around the world. At the Amazon Development Center in Dresden, Germany, we develop and operate Live Migration, which enables seamless migration of EC2 instances between physical hosts, helping our customers maintain their applications' availability and resilience.
We are looking for a Software Development Manager to join our EC2 Live Migration team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading a team of skilled engineers to design, develop, test, and operate the control plane service for live migration in EC2. You will work closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to drive the development of new features, resolve technical issues, and maintain a high quality service.
Our roadmap is bursting with opportunities for you to lead this team in solving intriguing challenges and tangibly impacting the customer experience. If you have passion for people management, technical knowledge in distributed cloud services and want to drive solutions to challenging problems that directly affect millions of people, there may be no better place than Amazon for you to impact the world!
After joining, you will quickly become a key partner to the leadership team, where you will understand its core business goals and priorities.
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 their cloud services.
Key job responsibilities
1. Lead and mentor a team of 7+ engineers, driving project execution and ensuring timely delivery of commitments.
2. Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to shape the product roadmap and strategically prioritize development initiatives.
3. Drive the development and enhancement of the Live Migration service, with a focus on maintaining high quality, reliability, and scalability.
4. Foster cross-team collaboration to resolve complex technical challenges and align the service with the customer needs.
5. Hire and developing your team. A successful service starts with a great team, and delivering through others is your primary responsibility.
6. Manage the team's performance and provide guidance and mentorship to team members.
7. Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
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- Several years’ experience of recruiting, hiring, building, retaining, and managing high performing diverse and inclusive teams of engineers
- Several years’ experience of leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services
- Proven ability in designing and developing solutions to complex problems in a large-scale enterprise environment
- 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
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar, or comparable years of experience.
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment
- Several years’ experience of leading development of applications backed by AWS services or using other cloud based technologies and services experience
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