A successful candidate is experienced in leading a team of deeply technical engineers. You, the candidate, must have proven skills as a leader that delivers on business objectives, prioritizes work, and influences partner teams. You will establish goals for your team and focus attention on the most important inputs to drive the desired business outcomes. You know how to grow the team by hiring, investing in people, and developing talent from within. ELB operates at large scale and enables customers to build high availability systems world-wide, so a passion and discipline around operational excellence is key. Come help us make history with ELB.
Key job responsibilities
Lead and manage a team of software engineers building and operating AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) services at massive scale
Drive technical strategy, architecture decisions, and roadmap planning for ELB features and reliability improvements
Hire, develop, and retain top engineering talent; conduct performance reviews, career coaching, and mentorship
Own operational excellence — ensure high availability, low latency, and security for one of AWS's most critical networking services
Partner cross-functionally with product management, principal engineers, and partner teams to define and deliver customer-focused solutions
Manage sprint planning, project prioritization, and delivery execution across multiple concurrent workstreams
Establish and raise the engineering bar through code reviews, design reviews, and best practices adoption
Drive operational metrics, on-call processes, and incident response to maintain industry-leading SLAs
Communicate effectively with senior leadership on team progress, risks, and strategic trade-offs
Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement aligned with Amazon's Leadership Principles
About the team
AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability for applications running on AWS. The team builds and operates some of the most critical networking infrastructure in the cloud — including Application Load Balancer, Network Load Balancer, and Gateway Load Balancer — serving millions of customers worldwide. We solve complex distributed systems challenges at unprecedented scale, directly impacting how businesses deliver fast, reliable experiences to their end users.
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
Experience partnering with product or program management teams
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience
6+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
3+ years of operational experience
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
5+ years of managing an engineering team operating at scale experience
Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Master's degree in engineering or equivalent, or 3+ years of professional software development experience
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USA, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
