Amazon Web Services (AWS) needs to evolve its foundational technologies to support growing customer needs and new use cases at an unprecedented scale. The AWS Transactional Services team is building distributed systems and backend technologies to address this growth, providing innovative solutions and APIs to other AWS teams like S3, Kinesis, SNS, and DynamoDB.
Requirements
- 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
- 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
Responsibilities
- Invent, design, and develop highly available and scalable distributed systems and database technologies.
- Implement best practices in software development and operational processes.
- Own the delivery of software development projects end-to-end.
- Define your team's roadmap and manage the ongoing projects.
- Work with the engineers in your team to invent, design, and develop highly available and scalable distributed systems and database technologies.
- Keep up to date with new technologies used in the field and by our customers, to stay current in our rapidly changing environment.
Other
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- Develop and grow the members of your team, as well as mentoring others.
- Keep customers informed, update senior management, and represent the team to their dependencies.
- 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.
