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# Software Development Manager - AWS Data Processing, Amazon Athena Control Plane

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** East Palo Alto, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $212,700.0 - $287,700.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Code Review, Software Design Patterns, Distributed Systems, Network Control, Software Product Management, Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, Software Technical Review, Web Services, System Availability, AWS Data Analytics, Build Process, Software Coding, Software Version Control
- **Published:** August 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/1F9468ABC66E468ABE5543BC2D0694AF/job/

## About the Role

* Passionate in building large scale distributed systems
 * Thrive in culture of ownership, delivery and bias for action
 * Fast pace environment energizes you to be at your best
 * Innovate and invent in agile and collaborative environment
 * Curious and eager to learn to expect more of you and others, * 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
 * 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

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

## Description

Athena is growing, and we are looking for a Software Development Manager who can lead key initiatives in Athena's Control Plane team for admission control and advanced workload management, while scaling up the team and the product. We have big technical challenges ahead of us that will grow the service and we need a leader who is passionate, technical and wants to take on a core control plane charter. You will bring you experience of building, managing, focusing, and mentoring engineering teams to deliver fast results.

You will continue to grow your leadership skills in this role as you:

Collaborate with some of the strongest technical leadership in the industry

Actively participate in hiring talented people

Actively develop the careers of the individuals on your team

Work directly with senior and principal engineers to define the architectural roadmap

Oversee the design process, implementation schedule, and delivery to customers in a fast-paced environment

Infuse AI into every aspect of development and operations

Bring a deep understanding of software development methodologies to the team

Manage a service with high availability, and continue to learn and develop the skills needed to lead a service team with the high operational excellence bar expected by AWS

Contribute to Amazon's intellectual property through patents and/or external publications, * Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture, design and extensible code

 * Technically lead a team of smart engineers on complex projects
 * Be an advocate of industry best-practices to produce reliable, fault-torrent and dependable code
 * Code and test complex system modules; develop and leverage frameworks to be effective and efficient
 * Participate in architecture, design and code reviews to maintain our high development standards
 * Own system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance
 * Collaborate and influence other teams to deliver and operate large scale, distributed services in the cloud


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