Software Development Manager, EC2 Core Product Management

Salary: $184,200 - 184,200 per year Requirements:

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of experience working directly within engineering teams
• 3+ years of experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling
• 8+ years of experience leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services
• Knowledge of engineering practices across the full software, hardware, and network development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, builds, testing, certification, and live-site operations
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams
• Experience communicating with users, technical teams, and senior leaders to gather requirements and explain product features, technical designs, and strategy
• Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring, coaching, and managing software engineering teams

• Develop software services that place client instances efficiently on servers, test configurations, and improve hardware utilization
• Collaborate with subject matter experts and AWS service teams to launch enterprise-wide EC2 instances and improve service scalability and performance
• Automate solutions to detect and predict capacity utilization and optimize capacity availability for customers
• Provide technical leadership by resolving ambiguous challenges, designing and prototyping solutions, and writing code
• Apply statistical and analytical methods to identify bottlenecks, determine root causes, and coordinate remediation across capacity management infrastructure
• Coach and mentor engineers, contribute to software design, conduct code reviews, and deliver production code
• Lead local development efforts that improve operational excellence
• Grow and coach a highly qualified software engineering team

• AWS
• Cloud
• EC2
• Hardware
• IoT
• Support
• Network
• Web
• Security

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We are hiring for the EC2 Capacity Optimization organization at Amazon Web Services, part of a fast-growing business delivering cloud computing services to organizations worldwide. Our team works to improve capacity elasticity, instance lifecycle experiences, fleet utilization, and AWS expansion into new regions. AWS Utility Computing develops and manages services across compute, databases, storage, IoT, platforms, and productivity applications. We foster knowledge-sharing, mentorship, inclusive culture, and career development, and support work-life harmony and flexibility. Benefits include health coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, sign-on payments, and restricted stock units. The role is based in Seattle, Washington, with a listed base salary range of $184,200 annually.

last updated 42 week of 2026