Software Development Manager, BDT - Cradle

Amazon is big and very data driven. Interested in building the next generation analytics platform to make this easy at an Amazon scale? Amazon's BDT organization is building a new data lake marketplace allowing for data producers and consumers to easily and securely share large volumes of data, run massively parallel analytics and share the gained insights. As part of the BDT organization, we are developing the core services of the data lake that includes cataloging, storage, access, compliance and quality and we’re looking for top engineers to build it from the ground up. This is a hands-on position where you will be do everything from designing and building highly scalable components and state-of-the-art features to formulating strategy for EMR and Redshift at Amazon, mentor other engineers and work with our business partners, data engineers and analysts to help them get the best results. You need to not only be a top software developer with excellent programming skills with a stellar record of delivery but also show bias for customer obsession. You need to have a real passion for very large scale databases and massively parallel computing. You will work with the latest AWS technologies in the big data space such as S3, EMR, Glue, Redshift and Athena to build new applications that leverage these technologies and open source frameworks like Apache Spark, Hive, Presto and Flink. Key job responsibilities Your responsibilities will include: A successful candidate will have a background in the leading team that owns distributed systems, a solid technical foundation, good communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment. As part of this role you will: Build and manage a team of industry-leading software engineers Foster career growth and a strong team culture Recruit, hire, mentor, and coach engineers Work cross-functionally, interfacing with internal customers to gain clarity on requirements, set priorities and communicate direction and progress Own all operational metrics for your team’s software Manage the agile development process and methodology to deliver incremental value to customers Work with product management to develop long-term architectural and business strategy