Manager, Software Engineering, AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Manager, Software Engineering, AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Job ID: 10434800 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Overview

Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk service is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a team that designs and operates core platform services such as environment provisioning, platform updates, and deployment pipelines. The role focuses on building scalable, reliable, and customer‑centric solutions while driving operational excellence at AWS scale.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of software engineers responsible for core Elastic Beanstalk infrastructure services, including environment provisioning, runtime management, and deployment orchestration.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of features and services on the team’s roadmap, driving technical direction while balancing customer needs, operational excellence, and business priorities.
• Partner with product management, senior engineers, and peer teams to define the technical strategy and long‑term vision for Elastic Beanstalk compute and runtime systems.
• Hire, develop, and retain top engineering talent, building a high‑performing culture grounded in Amazon’s Leadership Principles.
• Drive operational excellence across services, ensuring high availability, low latency, and robust monitoring for systems operating at AWS scale. Establish and maintain on‑call practices, runbooks, and incident response processes.
• Identify and remove technical and organizational blockers, navigating ambiguity to make sound decisions and keep the team focused on the highest‑impact work.
• Foster cross‑team collaboration across Elastic Beanstalk and the broader AWS organization to drive integration with dependent services and deliver cohesive customer experiences.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations; mentor engineers across levels and create growth opportunities.
• Represent the team’s work and technical decisions to senior leadership, clearly communicating progress, risks, and trade‑offs.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years working directly within engineering teams.
• 3+ years designing or architecting new and existing systems, focusing on reliability and scaling.
• 8+ years leading the definition and development of multi‑tier web services.
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns across the software, hardware, and network lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe product features, technical designs, and product strategy.
• Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring and coaching engineering teams to improve their skills and effectiveness.

Location & Compensation

USA, NJ, Jersey City – Salary range: $203,400.00 – $275,200.00 USD annually.

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription), basic life & AD&D insurance, optional 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

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