Software Development Manager - Embedded, AWS Hardware Engineering

As the Firmware Team Manager, you will lead a talented group of firmware engineers, fostering their professional growth and cultivating a culture of innovation and excellence. Your key responsibilities will include defining and presenting the annual roadmap for delivering high-quality firmware solutions to organizational leadership, ensuring alignment with AWS’s strategic goals. You’ll collaborate closely with AWS hardware and software teams to integrate firmware into the broader ecosystem of AWS Data Center services. Your role will extend beyond development, as you’ll also support the deployment and operation of the developed software in AWS data centers, ensuring smooth implementation and optimal performance.

• 3+ years of engineering team management 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
• 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
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams
• Experience managing a team of high calibre Software Engineers developing complex, world class, scalable software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers, * 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
• Experience delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment
• Experience with the scrum methodology
• 5+ years of experience with embedded firmware/software development for server platforms
• Understanding of server platform design and architecture
• 5+ years of experience with BMC (baseboard management controller) development
• Experiences with systems management protocols or standards such as I2C, MCTP, PLDM, Redfish, USB, SPDM, and PCIe
• Experiences with accelerated server design with GPUs
• Experiences with operating complex systems at Cloud scale

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, CA, Cupertino - 212,700.00 - 287,700.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Austin - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually

“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.”

The AWS Hardware Engineering team is seeking an experienced Software Development Manager to spearhead firmware development for the next generation of data center hardware. In this role, you will orchestrate the efforts of talented engineers to deliver unique hardware solutions and scale those for AWS customers. As a key member of the Firmware team, you’ll be at the forefront of innovation, guiding the development of embedded systems that power AWS’s infrastructure.

AWS Engineers are shaping the way people use computers and designing the future of cloud computing technology - come help us make history!, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Utility Computing (UC)

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations - from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.