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Amazon Software Engineering Manager , Compute Platforms in Sydney, Australia
Description
Are you interested in building hyper-scale services in the cloud. At AWS, engineers get the chance to work on scalability solutions, large scale applications and entirely new products that change the landscape for billions of users worldwide. From RDS to AQUA, Redshift to Aurora, Platform to Builder Tools; AWS engineers are simplifying the complex. This role is part of our Best Fit job match program. We have a variety Software Engineering Manager roles across ANZ. Apply for this role to be considered for multiple roles.
As a Software Engineering Manager at Amazon, you will leverage your exceptional technical expertise and strong leadership abilities to drive the development of mission-critical software systems. Guiding cross-functional engineering teams, you will deliver innovative solutions that delight Amazon's customers worldwide. Your responsibilities will span both technical leadership and people management.
You will contribute hands-on by architecting scalable, high-performance systems and writing code to solve complex problems. Providing technical direction and coaching, you will ensure your engineers continuously improve their skills and deliver quality, optimized solutions. Thriving in a fast-paced, metrics-driven culture, you will manage ambitious project timelines and budgets while maintaining a relentless focus on customer obsession.
Key job responsibilities
Provide technical leadership and collaborate with teams to plan and execute engineering programs, software architecture, product policy, and user experience improvements.
Contribute to development of requirements definition, design, implementation, unit testing, metrics, and integration to ensure quality deliverables.
Work with Technical Program Managers on release roadmaps and ensure the team is well positioned to support programs.
Improve efficiency and implement automation/tools to guide future software efforts.
Set expectations with individuals based on their level and role, meet regularly to discuss performance and development, and provide feedback and coaching.
About the team
One of the keys to AWS’s success is its top-tier collaborative culture. You will be working closely with a talented team of managers and engineers that will push your technical abilities while you bring new innovations to widely adopted and fast growing services.
Amazon offers an equitable salary package that includes shares, sign-on bonus, and a host of benefits. You will be encouraged and rewarded for doing what is right for the long-term success of the customer. We value your passion to discover, invent and build for the customer.
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences.
Basic Qualifications
3+ years of engineering team management experience
7+ years of engineering 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
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
Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
IDE statement:
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected attributes.