Director - Software Development - Cloud Computing - Amazon Web Services - Cambridge

Job description
Director - Software Development position within Amazon Web Services (AWS) located in our high tech Development Center in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA. Candidates with large scale distributed systems experience would be ideal.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world leader in providing a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world!
At AWS we are continuously innovating and expanding our pay-as-you-go cloud based services to meet the growing needs of our customers. Amazon Web Services cover a wide range of computing, networking, storage, database and application deployment domains; providing IaaS, PaaS and SaaS solutions to a broad range of customers and use cases.


Today AWS provides the widest set of storage service choices to help our customers solve their specific use case needs. These include Simple Storage Service (S3) - scalable storage in the Cloud, Glacier - low-cost storage archiving in the Cloud, Elastic Block Service (EBS) - Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) block storage volumes, and Storage Gateway.

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Leaders to grow AWS business. In this position you will be a member of a leadership team on a game changing AWS service that is reliable, scalable and high-performing. In addition, at Amazon, along with superlative technical strength, we expect our engineers to interact with customers, to understand our business goals, and to innovate rapidly, delivering high-quality and ground-breaking functionality.

As a member of the leadership team owning software development and service operations you will be responsible for all aspects of the group’s success, including realizing our roadmap, developing the careers of our engineers, ensuring high-quality software that exceeds customer expectations, and maintaining operational excellence for the systems and service that you will own.

The ideal candidate is excited about the incredible opportunity that cloud computing represents, and is passionate about delivering high quality services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities can shift fast. The leaders we are looking for will bring proven experience building, leading, managing, and mentoring engineering teams. Experience with using, and especially operating web-based infrastructure services is a plus.
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
5+ years professional experience in system software development and delivery
3+ years of experience building, leading, managing and mentoring high-performance engineering teams
Proven object-oriented design and implementation skills (Java, and/or C++), preferably on Linux
Deep understanding of computing systems, software architecture, data structures and algorithms
Proven track record iteratively delivering high quality software on time
Demonstrated passion for leadership, management and mentoring
Possess strong verbal and written communication skills
Possess strong analytical skills, with excellent problem solving abilities in the face of ambiguity

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in Agile/SCRUM enterprise-scale software development
Experience developing system software, distributed systems and data networking offerings
Knowledge of storage solutions
Working knowledge of storage performance challenges and their solutions
Proficient in network, distributed, asynchronous and concurrent programming
Familiar with building secure software and security algorithms
Experience building and operating scalable infrastructure software or distributed systems
Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment
Experience developing a product vision
Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but are necessary for Amazon leaders:

- Exhibits excellent judgment
- Hires and develops great people
- Has relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)
- Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business
- Expects and requires innovation of her/his team
- Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others
- Strong results orientation
- Thinks big

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