Amazon
Software Development Manager, Amazon MQ
$185K–$250K
Seattle, WA · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management; 7+ years of engineering; 8+ years leading multi tier web services; 1+ years in each of the specified technical leadership and distributed-systems areas; 5+ years as a Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Leads the Amazon MQ RabbitMQ engineering team, delivering and improving a managed cloud messaging service while contributing to the open-source ecosystem.
What you'll do
- Mentor engineers and foster technical excellence, software quality, and operational efficiency.
- Lead service development and delivery in collaboration with RabbitMQ and Apache ActiveMQ maintainers.
- Partner with product or program management teams.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
- 7+ years of engineering experience and 8+ years leading the definition and development of multi tier web services.
- At least 1 year of technical leadership and project management across the software development lifecycle, plus 1+ years developing distributed systems using Java, C#, or C++, service-oriented architecture, and distributed programming.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; knowledge of full-lifecycle engineering practices; experience partnering with product or program management teams.
Nice to have
- Experience communicating with users, technical teams, and senior leadership about requirements, product features, technical designs, and strategy.
- Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching, and managing software engineering teams.
Pay
184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Amazon MQ, AWS, Apache ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Java, C#, C++
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