Software Development Manager, Route 53
About the role
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. Amazon Route 53 provides highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS), domain name registration, and health-checking cloud services. The Route 53 Health Cast team is looking for an experienced, passionate, results-oriented, and inventive software development manager. As a manager on our team, you'll help deliver new products and features, evolve and scale our architecture, and work closely with senior technical leaders within the team and across AWS. You'll collaborate across AWS teams, ensuring new features integrate into the broader set of AWS services. You'll drive a culture that values operational excellence, security, customer obsession, and continuous improvement.
Key job responsibilities
- Independently lead your team while setting a high bar across the entire development lifecycle—from design and documentation to testing and operations
- Represent your team autonomously with minimal guidance from management, understanding the long-term strategic direction for your systems
- Establish effective mechanisms and structures to enable your team to deliver complex distributed systems that power AWS's global DNS service
- Strategically foster team growth by assigning projects that expand skills and create advancement opportunities
- Balance customer needs with technical excellence when managing priorities, adjusting schedules to ensure optimal outcomes
- Tackle ambiguity and proactively mitigate risks before they impact delivery
- Make informed technical choices that support AWS's critical infrastructure with deep understanding of Route 53's products, systems, limitations, and architectural decisions
- Champion high-quality engineering practices that maintain Route 53's reputation for exceptional reliability and performance throughout all aspects of leadership
About the team
The Route 53 team builds and operates AWS's highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) service. We maintain critical internet infrastructure that routes billions of daily requests with 100% availability SLAs. Our engineers solve complex distributed systems challenges across global edge locations while developing innovative features that simplify customer DNS management. We operate in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where technical excellence and operational excellence are equally valued. Join us to work on technology that literally keeps the internet running while growing your expertise in large-scale, mission-critical systems.
Basic qualifications
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- 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 partnering with product or 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
Pay
USA, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans)
- EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave