We're hiring a Senior Software Development Manager to lead our mission revolutionizing how customers connect frontier AI agents to VPC workloads. You'll guide the AWS Private Link team (an XXL business serving our largest customers) and VPC Lattice team (developing innovative solutions with CEO visibility) to unify these services into a seamless connectivity platform.

We value empathy alongside technical excellence. Our teams embrace a builder's mentality—delivering scrappy yet scalable solutions while ensuring our people love what they do. Based across Seattle and Vancouver, we're creating the future of secure application networking that will power thousands of AWS customers' AI initiatives.
Join us to shape critical infrastructure that matters, in an environment where both innovation and people thrive.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

• Key job responsibilities

• You will innovate, and cut through the ambiguity in this challenging space where no standards exist, aligning stakeholders and senior leadership across AWS.

• You will deeply understand how Gen AI based solutions and frontier AI agents integrate with application networks and how to move quickly in this space to solve hard problems to simplify our customers' experience.

• You will be the engineering owner for AWS Private Link and VPC Lattice businesses and drive their feature roadmaps and operations.

• You will deeply learn the technology stacks and guide strategic technical decisions setting a high bar for operational readiness in a complex hyper-scaled distributed systems environment.

• You will help scale and grow an organization setting the bar for technical delivery while shepherding the growth of the managers and engineers in the organization.

• A day in the life

• Working closely with the product management team aligning on product experiences and roadmap updates.

• Reviewing the operations of the services in your portfolio and driving improvements in scale, availability, and agility/efficiency.

• Reviewing technical designs for strategic projects in your area.

• Staying connected to the details of technical and operational challenges in your area via appropriate mechanisms.

• Mentoring your organization, and helping grow your team's careers.

About the team
Join the AWS Private Link & VPC Lattice team, where we build secure networking solutions that enable customers to access services privately without exposing traffic to the public internet. Our team develops and maintains critical infrastructure that powers thousands of AWS customers' networking architectures. We're looking for innovative problem-solvers who can help us enhance our private connectivity offerings, improve service scalability, and create new features that address complex networking challenges. If you're passionate about building secure, reliable networking solutions that directly impact AWS customers' ability to architect their applications, we want to hear from you.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience
• 5+ years of engineering team management experience
• 5+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software 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.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for 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. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 220,100.00 - 297,700.00 USD annually