Amazon
Software Development Manager, Amazon Simple Storage Service, S3 Express
$185K–$250K
Seattle, WA · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years engineering team management; 7+ years engineering; 8+ years leading multi tier web services; 1+ years technical leadership and project management across the software development lifecycle; 1+ years in each of the specified 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 team responsible for the S3 Express NameSpace index layer, setting its technical direction and delivering reliable, low-latency distributed storage services at scale.
What you'll do
- Own the technical vision and roadmap for the index layer and guide system design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations.
- Lead solutions to performance challenges, including noisy-neighbor isolation and sub-millisecond retrieval, in partnership with adjacent teams.
- Develop an inclusive engineering team through coaching, career planning, and strategic project assignments; establish operational metrics and audits.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience and 7+ years of engineering experience.
- 8+ years leading the definition and development of multi tier web services.
- Experience developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++, service-oriented architecture, and distributed programming; at least 1+ years in each area.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; 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
Java, C#, C++, service-oriented architecture, distributed programming
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