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# Software Development Manager, Elastic Container Service (ECS)

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Jersey City, NJ, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Code Review, Software Design Patterns, Software Product Management, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Web Services, Information Technology, Build Process, Software Coding, Software Version Control
- **Published:** July 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.com/details/5811916983

## About the Role

We are looking for a self-motivated, strong and people focused Software Development Manager within the ECS Storage and Networking group. ECS is a container orchestration service that lets customers to focus on running containerized applications without necessarily managing servers by removing the operational overhead of scaling, patching, securing, and managing servers. The ECS Dataplane group owns systems, services and process to manage infrastructure on which ECS executes customer workloads including infrastructure setup, capacity management, patching and efficiency programs., 3+ years of engineering team management experience
7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
Experience operating mission-critical customer-facing services
Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software 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
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, 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 developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture 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

 - 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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