Senior Software Dev Manager, S3
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 7, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 6, 2026. Amazon scores B on the Alion truth index.
Are you excited about the incredible opportunity that cloud computing represents? Are you passionate about delivering high-quality services and ready to apply your experience at massive scale? Amazon Web Services' Cloud Storage, Amazon S3, is one of the largest distributed storage systems in the world. We host trillions of objects and serve hundreds of millions of requests per second and we're continuing to grow!
We are looking for a passionate Senior Software Development Manager to lead the organization responsible for the S3 Index Data Plane. The S3 Index maintains the metadata for every object in S3. It is an important part of S3’s durability, performance, and scalability. In particular, the S3 Index is the request path of all mutations to S3. It is an exciting time to work in S3, with new and evolving workloads and customer expectations. As we build improvements and new capabilities in S3 to match, the S3 Index presents interesting technical challenges in distributed systems.
As the leader of this organization, you will:
- Lead teams of talented software engineers and managers, fostering their growth and development while delivering critical components of S3's architecture.
- Own the vision and roadmap for the S3 Index Data Plane's systems and interfaces.
- Invent new ways to improve the customer experience for S3’s diverse customers.
- Collaborate with your teams and partner teams to invent, design, and develop highly available and scalable distributed systems.
- Build and manage partnerships and cross-org commitments with customers and dependency teams.
- Work with your teams, your peers, senior management, and senior engineers to implement best practices in software development and operational processes. You are passionate about both building great software and great teams. You thrive leading teams with ambitious goals, where small optimizations have massive impact at scale, all while maintaining relentlessly high standards. This role is technical: you'll be expected to contribute to architecture discussions while regularly taking part in deep-dive troubleshooting exercises or technical post-mortem discussions to identify the root cause of complex issues. You have a strong understanding of distributed systems and experience operating services at scale.
Basic qualifications
- 10+ years of engineering experience
- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
Preferred qualifications
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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