Software Development Manager, S3
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Are you excited about the incredible opportunity that cloud computing represents? Are you passionate about delivering high-quality services and ready to apply your experience at massive scale? Amazon Web Services' Cloud Storage, Amazon S3, is one of the largest distributed storage systems in the world. We host trillions of objects and serve hundreds of millions of requests per second and we're continuing to grow!
We are looking for a passionate Software Development Manager to lead a team responsible for the S3 Index's request routing systems. The S3 Index maintains the metadata for the objects stored in S3. We tackle some of the hardest computer science problems. We build systems that can handle wildly varying access patterns and unprecedented load by our customers. As the leader of this team, you will be tackling complex challenges in supporting new features, performance optimization, and system decoupling, ensuring that S3 continues to deliver exceptional reliability and performance at massive scale.
In this role, you will:
- Lead a team of talented software engineers, fostering their growth and development while delivering critical components of S3's architecture
- Drive the technical roadmap for S3 Index's request routing
- Invent new ways to ensure correctness and optimize performance data flows through the S3 object Request Plane
- Enable end-to-end data integrity and performance optimizations across S3 Request Plane, Index, and Storage systems
- Protect against coupling between systems in accessing S3 objects to meet organizational needs
- Ensure operational excellence through metrics, monitoring, and continuous improvement
You'll partner with senior leaders and peer teams across S3 including Index, Object APIs, and Storage to set direction, align priorities, and continuously improve our systems and deliver exceptional customer experiences.
A successful candidate will feel strongly not only about building good software but about building great teams. The ideal candidate will be able to lead in resource-constrained and performance-sensitive areas, with relentlessly high standards. This role is technical: you'll be expected to contribute to architecture discussions while regularly taking part in deep-dive troubleshooting exercises or technical post-mortem discussions to identify the root cause of complex issues. A strong understanding of distributed systems and experience operating services at scale is a plus.
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, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
About the team
About 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.
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.
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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
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.
We are looking for a passionate Software Development Manager to lead a team responsible for the S3 Index's request routing systems. The S3 Index maintains the metadata for the objects stored in S3. We tackle some of the hardest computer science problems. We build systems that can handle wildly varying access patterns and unprecedented load by our customers. As the leader of this team, you will be tackling complex challenges in supporting new features, performance optimization, and system decoupling, ensuring that S3 continues to deliver exceptional reliability and performance at massive scale.
In this role, you will:
- Lead a team of talented software engineers, fostering their growth and development while delivering critical components of S3's architecture
- Drive the technical roadmap for S3 Index's request routing
- Invent new ways to ensure correctness and optimize performance data flows through the S3 object Request Plane
- Enable end-to-end data integrity and performance optimizations across S3 Request Plane, Index, and Storage systems
- Protect against coupling between systems in accessing S3 objects to meet organizational needs
- Ensure operational excellence through metrics, monitoring, and continuous improvement
You'll partner with senior leaders and peer teams across S3 including Index, Object APIs, and Storage to set direction, align priorities, and continuously improve our systems and deliver exceptional customer experiences.
A successful candidate will feel strongly not only about building good software but about building great teams. The ideal candidate will be able to lead in resource-constrained and performance-sensitive areas, with relentlessly high standards. This role is technical: you'll be expected to contribute to architecture discussions while regularly taking part in deep-dive troubleshooting exercises or technical post-mortem discussions to identify the root cause of complex issues. A strong understanding of distributed systems and experience operating services at scale is a plus.
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, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
About the team
About 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.
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.
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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
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.
