SDM GenAI, Device OS
DESCRIPTION
The Software Development Manager(SDM) experience is a unique one at Amazon. Teams are structured in small groups with a strong impetus to innovate, drive end to end ownership and meet critical business goals. Fresh college graduates get to rub shoulders with a seasoned software engineers and researchers with industry leading technical abilities, solving challenging engineering problems that affect millions of Amazon customers. Engineers also get to collaborate and work with teams across the globe, in the process being exposed to a range of technologies, best practices and solution patterns. Our learning series sessions and Principal talks are among the most popular presentations with healthy debate and a cross pollination of ideas. All this contributes to the grooming of the ‘fungible’ Amazon engineer who has exemplary technical skills, sharp business acumen and a strong drive to get things done.
Amazon Device OS team is responsible for building Amazon Common Software (ACS) for Echo, TV, and other IoT devices. ACS for IoT devices is a software stack integrates that enables easy integration of Alexa Voice Services (AVS), Frustration Free Setup (FFS) and AWS IoT Device SDK for Device makers and silicon vendors. ACS software powers Alexa enabled Echo Show, TV, speakers, wearables and the other smart home products
The Role:
The Software Development Manager (Manager-III) with AI/ML experience to manage a two-pizza development team in Bangalore. The team is working on an innovative AI-driven big data solution, handling billions of data daily through GenAI-driven NLP queries. This SDM will be part of the Device OS organization and will be responsible for hiring, coaching, and leading a development team that creates innovative Cloud solutions enabling new/unique experiences for our customers on a wide range of Amazon Devices. The team also develops scalable micro-services and solutions that enable Device Makers to quickly build and launch devices quickly and in a cost-effective way.
As a Software Development Manager, you will be responsible for hiring and leading a team of engineers developing software. In this position you will partner with product managers, technical program managers and other internal stakeholders.
This hands-on position requires broad engineering competence in Amazon Cloud Stack such as EC2, Lambda, Dynamo DB and Java full-stack expertise and a good understanding of the scalable software system design. In addition, it will require demonstrated experience successfully planning, organizing and conducting software development projects in a dynamic environment.
Key job responsibilities
1. Bringing thought leadership and ThinkBig ideas in driving GenAI based BigData initiative
2. Understanding on AWS EC2, Lambda, RDS, ES, and Quicksight
3. Complete understanding of AWS service usage and cost. Must bring in frugality in AWS resource related decisioning
4. A leader who can get the work done without enforcing the authority, and enables team to take bold risks
5. A coach who can care his people's career growth, and empowers to be a SME by developing best out of them.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- 7+ years of engineering 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
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
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