Software Development Manager, CloudFront Control Plane
DESCRIPTION
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network that securely delivers videos, live streams, web content, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly environment. Our mission is to build and operate a better and secure Internet. Our team writes software which works flawlessly for millions of transactions every second and exabytes of data. Every day we innovate and solve problems at unprecedented scale.
This is a unique opportunity to influence product direction as part of building next-generation change propagation and cache invalidations systems. We are looking for an engineering leader to innovate and solve the hardest problems in scale, security, availability, and performance. This leader will own control plane change propagation and invalidations aspects of the service. As our service continues to grow, the challenge is to scale by another order of magnitude, using a wide spectrum of technologies ranging from C, Rust, Java and many AWS internal services. This leader's responsibilities will include all aspects of the service experience: designing and building the software, delivering on customer performance and scale expectations, and operational excellence. Self-ability to build teams, and directly work and manage junior and senior engineers, along with a focus on operational and engineering excellence, is a must. If you are interested in living every day at the forefront of scale and innovative technologies, you will enjoy Amazon CloudFront!
Why should you join us?
* It is the right time to join. We are undertaking major transformation of our Control Plane services.
* This is a unique opportunity to truly influence one of the most scalable services on earth.
* It's rare to work in a job that will have direct effect on billions of individuals, small startups up and Fortune 500 companies. Each second or millisecond saved per transaction results in millions or billions saved.
Key job responsibilities
* Own propagation of customer configurations across CloudFront control and data planes.
* Own cache Invalidations system across CloudFront control and data planes.
* Lead and grow the Change Propagation and cache Invalidations engineering team.
* Build and drive the adoption of next-generation Change Propagation and Invalidations.
About the team
AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS)
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running. 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. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain - and we're looking for talented people who want to help.
You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You'll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
About AWS
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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 in engineering team management
- Experience managing a team of high calibre Software Engineers developing complex, world class, scalable software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience working directly within engineering 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
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