Senior Software Development Manager, OpenSearch
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS. Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
OpenSearch is a community-driven, Apache 2.0-licensed open source search and analytics suite based on Apache Lucene. It enables you to easily ingest, search, visualize, and analyze data. Since its launch in July 2021, we have released several major and minor versions to innovate in core areas of Search and Security, but we have much more to do. OpenSearch Project recently moved to the Linux Foundation to foster vendor neutral innovation in open source. This Sr. SDM role will lead Search and Security for OpenSearch based out of India. This gives an opportunity to collaborate with our community in open source and our enterprise customers to ensure we’re building secure and scalable solutions.
Who are you? You’re a manager who loves open source, search, security and growing your team. You’re a manager of managers who can balance strategy and tactics, features and operations. You have years of experience in building relationships with your reports, your peers, and your leadership. You give feedback with confidence and praise with sincerity. You strive every day to bring out the best in your engineers, to maintain a high technical standard for your product, and to deliver software that you’re proud of.
Who are we? We’re the team that helps build the Open Source product “OpenSearch” at AWS. This role is to directly manage the Amazon engineers working on the project with a focus on Search and Security, as well as engage with the community of contributors and our strategic customers in AWS.
So come join us — It’s a chance to build amazing software with some of the best engineers on the planet.
Key job responsibilities
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of relevant engineering experience
- 3+ years of people management experience, managing engineers and managers
- Experience in partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience developing and executing a software roadmap
- Deep hands-on technical expertise in software design and development
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Managed multiple teams of 6-10+ engineers
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master’s in Computer Science or related field
- Experience as a contributor to open source software or managing a team working in open source software
- Experience with query engines and complex distributed systems
- Experience working on the search stack with Elasticsearch, Lucene or Solr.
About the team
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply.
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture.
Posted: November 25, 2024 (Updated about 10 hours ago)
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
#J-18808-Ljbffr