Software Development Manager, AWS Elastic Load Balancing - Control Plane

About This Role

Lead a team of engineers building next-generation control plane capabilities for AWS Elastic Load Balancing, driving architectural decisions for massive scale and high availability. Establish team vision, roadmaps, and technical strategy while mentoring individuals and partnering with product management.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of talented engineers building next-generation control plane capabilities that support millions of nodes worldwide
• Drive architectural decisions that enable massive scale, high availability, and operational excellence
• Establish team vision, roadmap, and technical strategy aligned with ELB and broader AWS objectives
• Mentor and develop engineers through effective coaching, performance management, and career guidance
• Partner with product management to prioritize features that meet evolving customer needs
• Implement processes that improve software quality, reliability, and deployment velocity
• Manage project execution across multiple workstreams while maintaining team focus and momentum
• Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and technical excellence within your team
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration with AWS services
• Drive operational improvements through metrics, monitoring, and incident response optimization
• Represent the team in planning discussions and advocate for necessary resources
• Balance technical debt reduction with feature delivery to ensure long-term sustainability

Requirements

• 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

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience, 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience, 3+ years of designing or architecting new and existing systems experience, 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services experience

Nice to Have

• 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

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits