Job summary
Do you get in trouble for breaking stuff? What if it was your job AND you get to help customers at the same time! Come work on our team :-)

We are looking for an experienced Software Development Manager to help us shape the future direction and launch exciting new features for our recently launched AWS Fault Injection Simulator (AWS FIS) service.

AWS FIS is a fully managed service for running experiments on AWS that make it easier to improve an application’s performance, observability, and resiliency. Fault injection experiments are used in chaos engineering, which is the practice of stressing an application in testing or production environments by creating disruptive events, such as sudden increase in CPU or memory consumption, observing how the system responds, and implementing improvements. Fault injection experiment helps teams create the real-world conditions needed to uncover the hidden bugs, monitoring blind spots, and performance bottlenecks that are difficult to find in distributed systems.

If this sounds like the right challenge for you, then please apply today!

Key job responsibilities
The role requires you to be able to manage the overall software development life-cycle which includes the following responsibilities:

• Create, prioritize, communicate, manage, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments.
• Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management.
• Work closely with engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach.
• Foster culture of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics.
• Hire, coach, and mentor individuals; build a strong cross-functional organization.
• Influence and continuously improve a sustainable team culture that exemplifies Amazon’s leadership principles. Coach team members to help them achieve their potential.
• Improve upon existing systems to achieve efficiency in the operation load and footprint.
• Hire bar raising talent as the team expands.
• Partner with a diverse stakeholders to understand requirements, priorities, and processes.
• Propose and implement new projects or recommend system improvements.
• Have the obsession to drive a better customer experience through everything that we do here at Amazon.
• Bring innovative ideas to the table every day, in order to find better ways of accomplishing our customer objectives.
• Set clear, measurable quality goals for an organization in a data-driven way

About the team
Our development teams are based in Ireland and the US (east coast) which gives us a number of core overlap hours for shared meetings.

Mentorship and Career Growth:
Our engineers and leaders come from diverse perspectives and backgrounds across technology and beyond, and are excited to share their experiences and mentor more junior engineers. Our team members are encouraged to set up mentorship relationships with tenured peers or more senior colleagues across Amazon.

Inclusion:
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work-Life Balance:
Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

Come and work with us on the Fault Injection Simulator team!: https://aws.amazon.com/fis/

• Demonstrated ability to take a project or significant feature from concept to launch.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
• Strong business and technical vision.
• Demonstrated evidence of building lasting relationships with the team and business stakeholders.
• At least 5 years experience building and developing strong technical teams.
• At least 5 years experience professionally developing software in an Object Oriented Programming (OOP) language like Java.
• Prior experience with cloud computing services
• Experience with large-scale multi-tiered systems and service-oriented architecture.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Proven track record of hiring and managing high performing engineering teams

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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