Amazon
Software Development Manager, Elastic Container Service (ECS)
$203K–$275K
Jersey City, NJ · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jul 22, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years engineering team management; 7+ years engineering; 8+ years leading multi tier web services; 3+ years as a Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupation; 1+ years developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture. The posting also asks for 3+ years designing or architecting systems and experience operating mission-critical customer-facing services.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Leads the ECS team responsible for software governing container task lifecycles and infrastructure supporting customer workloads on AWS Fargate.
What you'll do
- Lead an engineering team developing and operating ECS services and infrastructure.
- Guide the design, development, scaling, and reliability of multi-tier web services.
- Recruit, mentor, and manage software engineers; partner with product or program management.
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.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Knowledge of full software/hardware/networks development life-cycle practices; experience partnering with product or program management teams.
Nice to have
- Experience communicating with users, technical teams, and senior leadership about requirements, features, designs, and strategy.
- Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching, and managing Software Engineers.
Pay
203,400.00 - 275,200.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS Fargate, ECS, service-oriented architecture
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