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Come grow and lead a team building the next-generation SDN for AWS networking services.
As a Software Development Manager in Hyperplane, you will lead a team towards building a new platform which implements new features within AWS VPC, and making it work at extraordinary scale. In this role, you will provide technical leadership, solve complex software problems, and make impactful trade-offs between short-term and long-term results. You'll think in terms of architecture, not just code, and will help elevate our ability to build and operate high availability systems worldwide.
With us, you will provide leadership and management for a development team to innovate and deliver core control plane software required to support EC2 Networking organization. This is a hands-on position that requires broad engineering competence and in-depth technical knowledge of control plane software development, DevOps roles, continuous integration, infrastructure tools and distributed systems, as well as demonstrated experience in planning, organizing, refactoring, and conducting software development projects in a dynamic environment.
A successful candidate is comfortable in a leadership role and seeks to mentor and grow less experienced engineers on the team. You understand customer obsession and live and breathe operational excellence. You know when to partner with and influence other teams to deliver results. You will emphasize hiring and developing the best talent at AWS.
Ready to make a durable mark on the computer industry? Come join us for this unique opportunity that blends leadership, technology, and accelerating customer growth!
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Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will manage one or two two-pizza teams. You will drive the technical direction, foster team culture, grow engineers, deliver exciting features and world class software defined control plane solutions to internal and external customers.
A day in the life
There is no average day for a Hyperplane SDM. This sounds cliché, but we are constantly growing, learning, and improving. A Hyperplane SDM works with the team to set realistic delivery targets while insisting on the highest standards. They earn trust with the team, leadership, and our partners with clear, honest communication, delivering results, and embracing a bias for action. We are constantly learning, always curious, and not afraid to dive deep to fully understand problems in our very complex space. Our SDMs are our builders' cheerleaders - unblocking, coaching, encouraging, and counseling as needed.
About the team
The Hyperplane organization builds and runs a global software-defined network, powering products such as NAT Gateway, Transit Gateway, AWS Network Load Balancer, and more. As a foundational network service, every day the team designs for and solves problems at an unprecedented scale.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
- 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
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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.
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USA, CA, SANTA CLARA - 212,700.00 - 287,700.00 USD annually