Director, Software Development

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field - or equivalent work experience
• 15+ years of software development experience
• 10+ years of managing a team
• 5+ years of managing managers
• Experience building and running highly available, large-scale, distributed systems -externally facing product or service
• Proven ability to lead across multiple locations

• Track record leading through leaders, growing and leading engineering organizations of 100+ people
• Experience building and scaling a product or external service from early stage to enterprise-level success
• Multi-site leadership experience
• Remarkable technologist with high judgment and remarkable product vision
• Operational excellence background
• Deep experience with networking, distributed systems, or infrastructure at hyperscale


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USA, WA, Seattle - 264,100.00 - 350,000.00 USD annually
This Director of Software Engineering will own the end-to-end software services for network monitoring and remediation. These services include capturing telemetry from our fleet of over 3M network devices, custom probing services that actively test network paths, services that correlate all of this telemetry into actionable insights, and services that enable remediation actions to resolve network impairments. The role requires a leader who can scale a globally distributed engineering organization, drive innovation in high scale data collection and processing, and who can partner closely with network engineering teams to ensure AWS has the best operating network infrastructure for our customers. 


Key job responsibilities
• Own the end-to-end technical strategy and roadmap for a critical domain within AWS Network Engineering
• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering organization of engineers across multiple locations, building a culture of operational excellence, innovation, and customer obsession
• Drive architectural decisions for highly available, large-scale distributed systems that serve millions of customers globally
• Partner cross-functionally with hardware engineering, network operations, product management, and science teams to deliver integrated solutions
• Establish and maintain the highest standards for system reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency
• Drive operational excellence including on-call culture, incident response, and continuous improvement of availability metrics