The role
From Amazon's own posting.
Are you passionate about leading teams that design and develop highly available, large-scale services? Would you like to empower engineers to invent and build solutions for customers that truly make a difference in their business? Are you an experienced Software Development Manager with a background in VMware technologies and a self-starter who is excited to build something new and work at cloud scale? If the answer is yes, then we have an exciting opportunity for you to lead a team on the Amazon Elastic VMware Service.
A wave of innovation is bringing sweeping changes to EC2 services with new virtualization capabilities, deep platform integrations, and unimaginable scale—revolutionizing traditional thinking around how we run enterprise workloads in the cloud. We are looking for a Software Development Manager to lead a team building new capabilities to help customers run VMware-based workloads on AWS. The AWS Commercial Applications team within Amazon EC2 defines and builds integrations with external software applications running in cloud environments and helps modernize enterprise customer workloads.
Our team launched Amazon EVS in August 2025, and is rapidly expanding to continue building new capabilities for our customers migrating and running VMware-based workloads on AWS. As an SDM, you will lead a team of engineers, drive technical strategy, mentor talent, and deliver customer-focused solutions at scale.
Key job responsibilities
Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team of 10+ software development engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement while building diverse talent pipelines and developing engineers to achieve their full potential
Own the complete software development lifecycle from requirements definition through design, implementation, testing, and operational excellence for Amazon Elastic VMware Service features, ensuring delivery of highly available, scalable solutions that meet customer needs
Drive technical strategy and architecture decisions for integrating VMware-based workloads with AWS services, collaborating with cross-functional teams including product management, principal engineers, and external partners like Broadcom to define and execute the product roadmap
Operate and scale a global AWS service with distributed customers and infrastructure, establishing operational excellence through metrics-driven decision making, automated monitoring, and proactive issue resolution while maintaining Amazon's high performance bar
Take ownership of ambiguous, complex problems spanning multiple teams and organizations, breaking them down into actionable solutions, managing dependencies, and delivering results in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment
Champion customer obsession by deeply understanding customer pain points, gathering feedback, defining requirements, and ensuring the team delivers first-class experiences that drive customer adoption and satisfaction
Mentor and develop engineering talent through regular 1:1s, performance management, career development planning, and technical coaching, helping engineers grow their skills and advance their careers at Amazon
About the team
The Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) team helps enterprise customers modernize their VMware-based workloads on AWS. We're rapidly expanding our capabilities to support customers migrating from on-premises environments to AWS at cloud scale. Our team fosters a culture of innovation, ownership, and knowledge-sharing. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, creating an environment that celebrates mentorship through one-on-one coaching and thorough code reviews. We work closely with AWS platform teams and partners like Broadcom to deliver seamless integrations and revolutionary solutions for enterprise workloads.
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- 3+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience
- 1+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
- 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++ experience
- 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture experience
- 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- 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
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 - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually