Software Development Manager

The AWS IDE Team are looking for a Software Development Manager who is passionate about managing teams and building services. You will be part of a team building an AWS service to enhance the developer experience in Cloud. The team works in close collaboration with other AWS services such as AWS Cloud9, AWS Fargate, and AWS ECS. If you are exited about the thought of working in cloud computing and building future AWS services, then we'd love to talk to you.

Building a High-Performing & Inclusive Team Culture - You will be attracting & developing a team that welcomes, celebrates, and leverages a diverse set of backgrounds and skillsets to deliver results. Driving results through others is your primary responsibility, and doing so in a way that builds on our inclusive culture is key to our long term success.

This is a highly visible position that will interact at all levels of AWS. Your ability to communicate and influence others will be a key to success.

If you are a results-oriented, customer-focused engineering manager who gets excited about starting a new product from scratch, iterating quickly, and delivering compelling solutions for other software developers - please talk to us We would love to welcome you to join us in Amsterdam and become part of this unique opportunity.

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.

Key job responsibilities

Key job responsibilities

• Making AWS easy to learn and use
• Being a proponent of the DevOps movement and enabling customers to create highly automated systems that solve their business needs
• Working with engineering teams to translate customer needs into workable technology solutions that scale operationally
• Building and delivering products and services in the Developer Tools space
• Hiring, mentoring, and growing a high performing engineering team
• Working closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
• Operating critical systems and services
• Participating in an on-call rotation every 1-2 months

A day in the life

Our team gives high value to work-life harmony. Since the Covid19 pandemic we adjusted to remote work and established a hybrid work environment in which engineers spend 3 days working in the office, adjusted to the team needs

Mentorship & Career Growth

We're committed to the growth and development of every member of the team, and that includes our development managers. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the culture and direction and deliver site-wide initiatives that will improve the life of all of our teams. AWS is a growth environment - we are hiring and scaling rapidly to meet the needs of our customers. You'll have the opportunity to grow your scope of influence naturally as we scale and will have get to hire & develop other leaders along the way.

On-Call Responsibility

This position involves On-call responsibility. We work as a team to root-cause the issues and ensure our systems are resilient and fault-tolerant.

About the team

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) IDE team provides developers with different tools and services that make it easy to develop modern cloud applications. We provide the IDE Toolkits for Eclipse, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, and Visual Studio Code. With AWS Cloud9, we also provide our customers with a Web-based IDE. Our goal is to enable professional developers to create applications targeting the Cloud, e.g. Server-less or containers. We help them author, debug, test, and ultimately deploy code on AWS.

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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our 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:

Amsterdam, NLD

Basic Qualifications

• 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 in engineering team management
• Experience in engineering
• Experience in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services
• Experience partnering with product and program management teams

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

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