Software Engineering Manager, AWS Commercial Applications, Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS)

About the role

The AWS Commercial Applications team within Amazon EC2 is looking for a Software Development Manager to lead a team building new capabilities to help customers run VMware-based workloads on AWS. This role involves leading a team of engineers, driving technical strategy, mentoring talent, and delivering customer-focused solutions at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team of 10+ software development engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement while building diverse talent pipelines and developing engineers to achieve their full potential
• Own the complete software development lifecycle from requirements definition through design, implementation, testing, and operational excellence for Amazon Elastic VMware Service features, ensuring delivery of highly available, scalable solutions that meet customer needs
• Drive technical strategy and architecture decisions for integrating VMware-based workloads with AWS services, collaborating with cross-functional teams including product management, principal engineers, and external partners like Broadcom to define and execute the product roadmap
• Operate and scale a global AWS service with distributed customers and infrastructure, establishing operational excellence through metrics-driven decision making, automated monitoring, and proactive issue resolution while maintaining Amazon's high performance bar
• Take ownership of ambiguous, complex problems spanning multiple teams and organizations, breaking them down into actionable solutions, managing dependencies, and delivering results in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment
• Champion customer obsession by deeply understanding customer pain points, gathering feedback, defining requirements, and ensuring the team delivers first-class experiences that drive customer adoption and satisfaction

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of engineering experience
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
• 3+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++ experience
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture experience
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• 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

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

Skills

• Experience in VMware technologies
• Self-starter who is excited to build something new and work at cloud scale

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is listed below. 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.

Schedule

Full-time