Software Development Manager, API Gateway Workflows Team

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.

API Gateway is the front-door of the Serverless revolution, an approach that lets customers turn business logic and application code into scalable, fault-tolerant production without requiring every developer to become an expert in deployment technologies and infrastructure management. API Gateway turns daunting tasks such as traffic management, authentication, authorization, metering, monitoring, and API versioning into easily configurable steps.

We are hiring engineering leaders who have a passion for reducing the time it takes for developers to ship scalable code. In this role, you will grow a diverse team of talented engineers. You will own the development lifecycle of existing services supporting that, partnering with product management to enhance the customer experience. You will work with engineers to deliver scalable and latency sensitive software on time. You will set standards for the team, and drive an inclusive culture.

If you are excited about cloud computing and architecting highly available and large-scale services used by millions of users, then join us in making the Serverless revolution ubiquitous.

Key job responsibilities

You enjoy being a great people manager. You know how to build, motivate, and mentor a team of passionate technologists. You measure and celebrate successes. You have experience managing a product roadmap. You use data to drive alignment. You care about building an inclusive team culture. You recognize and leverage the strengths of your employees and challenge them to continue to grow.

• Own the outcomes of a team delivering high-impact software that protects millions of customer workloads
• Manage team performance, career development, and growth through regular coaching, mentorship, and feedback
• Build and execute technical roadmaps in partnership with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to ensure the right work is prioritized and delivered on time
• Evaluate trade-offs between operational excellence and feature development, balancing short-term needs with long-term architectural goals
• Foster a positive, inclusive team culture where engineers are empowered to deliver their best work
• Drive engineering best practices including code quality, testing, CI/CD, and operational readiness
• Collaborate cross-functionally with security, networking, and infrastructure teams to deliver integrated solutions

A day in the life

You will spend your day meeting with people on your team and providing individual career development pathways for them. You will provide a strategic vision for you team and ensure that a high quality bar is maintained on the projects that your team delivers. You will work with other leaders across the organization to ensure API Gateway is delivering high impact projects for our customers.

About the team

Our team is part of the Amazon API Gateway Data Plane organization. We own critical components of the control plane, configuration propagation, and placement systems that determine how customer workloads are deployed and managed. Our work directly impacts the reliability and performance of millions of API requests, ensuring customers can scale seamlessly. You"ll lead engineers solving complex distributed systems challenges at massive scale in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.