Software Development Manager Bellevue, WA Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

WorkSpaces is leading the cloud desktop revolution and we are looking for a technical Software Development Manager to help lead our growing engineering organization.

Amazon WorkSpaces is a managed desktop computing service in the cloud. Amazon WorkSpaces allows customers to easily provision cloud-based desktops that allow end-users to access the documents, applications and resources they need with the device of their choice, including laptops, iPad, Kindle Fire, Android tablets and web browsers. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, customers can provision a high-quality cloud desktop experience for any number of users at a cost that is highly competitive with traditional desktops and half the cost of most virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions.

You can find out more about WorkSpaces here: http://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/

If you are passionate about massively scalable distributed systems, networking protocols for remote real time presentation and multiple client technologies then join our team to help build Amazon's Desktop-As-A-Service offering! We aim to bring a desktop experience to modern form factors (mobile, desktop) with a native experience for end-users, and a simple and cost-effective way to provision and manage these desktops for IT administrators, leveraging world's largest public cloud!

The right candidate will be comfortable leading a large engineering team to deliver this type of service at high quality and availability, while maintaining a high feature output pace. They must be able to define and drive a clear product vision. Management via mechanisms and metrics is critical at this scale. The ideal candidate will bring experience in several of the key technical areas, a depth in automaton and tooling is particularly relevant. From an engineering perspective, it is a great opportunity to build distributed systems using industry leading AWS constructs such as EC2, EBS, DynamoDB, EMR and SWF.

We are changing the way that people use computers - come help us make history!