Software Development Manager - AWS IoT Messaging

Job description

DESCRIPTION

AWS IoT launched with a mission to easily and securely connect billions of devices to the cloud. We believe we will be at the hub of enabling the next wave of innovation in technology. Smart homes appliances, wearables, intelligent industrial automation - anything that consumes electricity could communicate with AWS IoT.

Our mission is to keep the world of things connected - and we're innovating on technologies to enable high rate message streams, expand on lightweight industry standard communication protocols, using the latest security technology and building high performance and highly reliable infrastructure that can serve any traffic pattern from delivering commands to millions of connected light bulbs and thermostats instantaneously to ingesting high throughput jet engine telemetry.

We are looking for an experienced Software Development Manager to run the AWS IoT Message Broker service. A successful candidate will need to grow the team and its responsibilities by continuously innovating on delivering a highly reliable and scalable cloud service that represents the core component of AWS IoT.

We
· Have diverse technological background and enjoy to dive deep on a wide range of technologies
· Never stop learning how our customers are using our service and obsess over customer experience and usability
· Are owners: We love building new innovative services, and run and improve our existing ones
· Enjoy prototyping with the goal to building production-ready and maintainable solutions
· Are agile and collaborative
· Like to do things outside work once in a while

You
· Are passionate about the world of connected things and its opportunities
· Embrace massive scale of cloud services
· Obsess about the impact your work has on real customers
· Can eliminate ambiguity and add order to creative chaos
· Use data to prioritize and make decisions
· Build strong teams which are as passionate as you about our mission
· Take ownership and do whatever it takes to get the job done
· Never stop learning and help grow your team members to excel at what their best in

Key responsibilities
· Design, build and optimize the software with a team of engineers to run a highly scalable communication protocol engine and front-end to connect billions of devices to the AWS eco-system
· Drive new ideas along with business justification to grow the team's responsibilities and AWS IoT's business
· Own and continue to improve the development process with your team
· Define goals and deliverables to meet dates and ship features at high quality & report on status
· Recruit and hire for your team and others
· Develop team members and help them grow their career

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
· 8+ years professional experience in software development, with at least 2 years as a manager
· Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java or C++
· Ability to design & review distributed architectures