VP, AWS Messaging and Streaming Services

About the role

This is a critical senior leadership role spanning the full breadth of AWS's real-time data movement portfolio—from open-source streaming technologies to AWS-native messaging and delivery solutions. As VP, you will be responsible for product strategy, engineering execution, service operations, and overall business results across the entire messaging and streaming portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Own the P&L, product roadmaps, engineering development, and operational excellence for all services in scope.
• Think strategically and execute relentlessly—Innovate on behalf of customers while remaining deeply connected to engineering execution.
• Apply relentless high standards to lead the development of purpose-built, large-scale systems.
• Lead at scale—Direct geographically distributed teams (Seattle, Vancouver BC, Palo Alto CA, Cambridge UK, and beyond) to build and operate next-generation high-performance streaming and messaging systems that deliver real-time ingestion, storage, processing, and delivery for large-scale applications.
• Drive the open-source and proprietary balance—Your portfolio spans open-source streaming technologies (Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ) and AWS-native solutions (Kinesis, SNS, SQS, Data Firehose), positioning you to own the complete data movement lifecycle.
• Manage a diverse business mix—Given the combination of heavily used, highly operational services (e.g., Kinesis Data Streams, SQS, SNS) and emerging/growing businesses (e.g., Amazon MQ, Managed Flink), this role demands strong technical depth, strong operational leadership, and the ability to drive new adoption simultaneously.
• Collaborate across AWS—Since these services are used in conjunction with many other systems, you will help customers build applications that leverage multiple AWS offerings. You will work closely with senior AWS leaders and the leaders of other AWS services, particularly within AWS Data and Analytics, AWS Serverless, and AWS Storage.
• Champion open source—Be enthusiastic about data streaming, passionate about contributing to open-source communities, and driven to solve real customer business needs at AWS scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field) or equivalent work experience
• 15+ years of experience in the development of mission-critical system software, with 10+ years driving long-term engineering and product decisions at senior leadership level
• Track record of delivering innovative cloud-based applications and services at scale
• Pioneered ability to hire, develop, and retain an inclusive, high-performing organization of 400+ engineers
• Experience scaling diverse, highly dynamic, and fast-growing technical and product teams across multiple geographies
• Demonstrated P&L ownership and business acumen for a portfolio of services