About the Job
In Route 53, our mission is to make DNS invisible for our customers. It just works.
As our team grows, the AWS Infrastructure DNS team is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a team that builds and operates large-scale DNS systems used to drive the Amazon fleet.
Key Responsibilities
* Technical and People Management, handle multiple priorities at once, find paths forward in difficult situations and lead independently.
* Develop the best in the team and the organisation. Keep pushing for higher coding, testing and operational standards.
* Maintain relationships with key customers and seek product feedback on new ideas.
* Respond to engineering initiatives and critically assess which ones to fund.
* Work with senior leadership on providing accurate and detailed reports of what your team is working on.
* Roll your sleeves and get involved in technical work, whether it's building a system or refactoring a code base.
A Day in the Life
Be a leader-servant of a team of high performing software engineers with relentless high standards.
Participate in design review meetings and meaningfully contribute.
Make contributions to code.
Participate in an escalation rotation to ensure services remain highly available.
About the Team
We are serious about career progression, growing engineers across many levels and life-work balance.
We are looking for a manager with similar ethos and somebody who can make trade-offs and high impact decisions.
The team owns goals critical to the success and growth of AWS, so the leader will need to be comfortable relaying complex concepts to senior leadership.
About AWS
AWS values diverse experiences.
We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.
We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills.
We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.
Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon.