Manager, Software Engineering, AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk service is looking for a Software Engineering Manager for one of our development teams that builds and operates platform management, environment orchestration, and runtime infrastructure. We have an ambitious roadmap that seeks to redefine how our customers build their applications and deploy them at scale on AWS.

Amazon Elastic Beanstalk allows our customers to deploy and scale web applications and services without the undifferentiated heavy lifting required to manage underlying infrastructure. Our mission is to accelerate the adoption of AWS by providing the best possible experience for customers deploying their applications. We are expanding our team to help build additional features for our customers. This is a great time to join a growing team and help influence what we can do for customers who are adopting Elastic Beanstalk as part of their AWS deployment strategy.

As a leader on the Elastic Beanstalk team you will be responsible for building and owning core services responsible for environment provisioning, platform updates, and managed deployment pipelines. The team's charter is to manage application runtime environments and related software components that help monitor, scale, and repair infrastructure. It is a critical team that helps manage production workload infrastructure across a wide variety of customer application types.

Your team will build solutions to ensure the safety and stability of software the team operates, integrate with other AWS services with an eye towards simple and streamlined interfaces. You will own staffing and managing the engineering team, product development, setting the team culture, best practices, and organizational planning. The successful candidate will be able to deal with ambiguity and will need to think big.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about the potential of cloud computing, and about building simple and elegant software solutions and customer-centric products. This leader has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The candidate is a leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly and compellingly and who understands how to drive a high level of focus and excellence with a strong team. AWS in general, and this business in particular, operates at very large scale and on critical
workloads, so a passion and discipline around operational excellence is key. A high level of ownership and accountability is a must.

For more information on the service, please visit https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/


Key job responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of software engineers responsible for building and operating core Elastic Beanstalk infrastructure services, including environment provisioning, platform 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, principal 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. Build a high-performing team culture grounded in Amazon's Leadership Principles, with a focus on ownership, bias for action, and customer obsession.
- Drive operational excellence across the team's 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. Navigate 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 within the team.
- Represent the team's work and technical decisions to senior leadership, clearly communicating progress, risks, and trade-offs.

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

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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, NJ, Jersey City - 203,400.00 - 275,200.00 USD annually