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Software Development Manager - Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Cambridge, MA.

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) https://aws.amazon.com/efs/ is built in Cambridge, MA and launched in 2016. It's a fully managed service that makes it easy to set up and scale shared file storage in the AWS Cloud. Amazon EFS is designed for a wide variety of use cases: data analytics, video rendering, genomics analysis, web serving, content management, and home directories, to name a few.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a dynamic and rapidly growing business within Amazon, with over a million active customers in 190 countries around the world. In 2017, AWS launched more than 1000 new services and innovative features! We maintain this rapid pace of innovation by treating each team like its own startup inside AWS, directly accountable for their customers' satisfaction, service innovations, ambitious growth, and meeting revenue goals.

As a Software Development Manager in this office, you will lead a team designing and building services and features that allow customers to create cloud storage solutions that are secure, reliable, completely elastic, and can grow to petabyte-scale. Delivering reliable and high-performance services and features at AWS scale requires technical leaders with extraordinary expertise and boundless creativity. At Amazon, managers will interact with customers, understand our business goals, and innovate rapidly, delivering high-quality and ground-breaking functionality.

What does it take to thrive as a Software Development Manager on EFS? You need to be creative, responsible, and curious while leading the team to move quickly in turning code into customer solutions. You're excited about designing and implementing solutions that scale while also engaging individual customers in understanding their applications. You're able to think about business opportunities, operational issues, and architectural diagrams in the course of a single conversation. You're looking for a team of bright, capable engineers to work with in implementing your vision and you want to both teach and learn from other engineers around you.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Basic Qualifications:

· BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

· 6+ years professional experience in commercial or web-scale system software development and delivery

· 3+ years of experience building, leading, managing, and mentoring high-performance engineering teams

· Proficiency in a modern programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Python

· Understanding of operating system fundamentals (Linux or Windows)

· Deep understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures, and algorithms

· Proficiency in network, distributed, asynchronous, and concurrent programming

· Experience in implementing professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle

· Proven track record of iteratively delivering high quality software on time

· Demonstrated passion for leadership, management, and mentoring

· Possession of strong verbal and written communication skills

· Possession of strong analytical skills, with excellent problem solving abilities in the face of ambiguity

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Preferred Qualifications:

· Experience in Agile/SCRUM enterprise-scale software development

· Experience developing system software, distributed systems, and data networking offerings

· Knowledge of storage protocols and file system architecture

· Understanding of storage performance challenges and their solutions

· Familiarity with building secure software using modern security principles

· Experience building and operating scalable infrastructure software or distributed systems

· Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment

· Experience developing a product vision

Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but are necessary for Amazon leaders:

· Exhibits excellent judgment

· Hires and develops great people

· Holds relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)

· Demonstrates the ability to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business

· Expects and requires innovation of her/his team

· Shows passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others

· Biases towards delivering results

· Thinks big

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