Description

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Are you passionate about building hyper-scale systems to serve millions of customer? Do you want to be at the bleeding edge of technology and work with protocol at the lowest level? Do you love working with a team of top talents who are truly innovative, smart, and customer obsessed? If that is you, then we should talk.

We are looking for a Software Development Manager (SDM) for ELB Data Plan team to drive a new security initiative for ALB. This team owns ALB data plane features, ALB Service protection including L4 & L7 DDoS detection and mitigation, as well as ALB integration with WAF (Web Application Firewall). As a Software Development Manager for ELB Data Plane, you will own defining the service road map, growing and managing the team as well as diving deep into the design and architecture. This is a high visibility role with the opportunity to positively impact our most-critical customers and their businesses.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of software engineers developing and maintaining critical load balancing infrastructure that powers thousands of customer applications
- Drive technical excellence through code reviews, architecture discussions, and implementation of engineering best practices
- Collaborate with product managers to define roadmaps and prioritize features that enhance
- ELB's scalability, reliability, and performance
- Manage project execution across the development lifecycle, ensuring on-time delivery while maintaining high quality standards
- Implement metrics-driven development processes to continuously improve team velocity and product quality
- Partner with operations teams to ensure 24/7 availability of ELB services and lead incident response when necessary
- Recruit top engineering talent and develop team members through regular feedback, career guidance, and growth opportunities
- Communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Drive operational excellence through automation, monitoring improvements, and reduction of technical debt
- Collaborate across teams to ensure ELB integrates seamlessly with other AWS services

About the team
The Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) team builds and operates critical AWS infrastructure that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets. Our team designs highly available, fault-tolerant systems that handle millions of requests per second while maintaining ultra-low latency. We work on complex distributed systems challenges including traffic routing algorithms, health checking mechanisms, and auto-scaling capabilities. Our services power thousands of customer applications, from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, enabling them to achieve high availability and scalability. We continuously innovate to enhance performance, security, and cost-efficiency while maintaining 99.99% availability for our global customer base.