Software Development Manager, Observability & Digital Thread, Amazon Leo, D2D Software

About the role

Amazon Leo is building a low Earth orbit satellite constellation to bring fast, affordable connectivity to customers around the world. Direct to Device (D2D) extends Leo to standard mobile phones and devices: a fully regenerative fifth-generation (5G) mobile base station on each satellite, delivering service to standard handsets through mobile network operators (MNOs).

D2D Software builds the embedded software that flies, the cloud and ground software that runs the service, and the platform that connects them. Our target is under a day from a defect being found to the fix deployed across the entire constellation, achieved by automating everything that a person would otherwise do by hand.

This role leads observability and digital thread in DevOps & Release, reporting to the Director, DevOps & Release. It owns telemetry ingest, anomaly detection, dashboards, and traceability. Before anything is handed on, the bar is: detect-and-trace time within budget. It hands off to its customers as follows: telemetry, dashboards, and traceability to every team and Software Delivery & Business Ops.

What the team needs to achieve

• Detect-and-trace time within budget.
• Hand-offs that meet their service level: telemetry, dashboards, and traceability to every team and Software Delivery & Business Ops.
• Measured, rising capability and efficiency of the team, with manual work falling release over release.

How the team is measured

• Detect-and-trace time.
• Status derived from the systems of record.

Export Control Requirement

Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Key job responsibilities

• Own telemetry ingest, anomaly detection, dashboards, and traceability.
• Meet the bar before every hand-off: detect-and-trace time within budget.
• Work directly with engineers in the boundary teams as partners, through agreed contracts and service levels.
• Automate everything a person would otherwise do twice.
• Hire, coach, and grow the team, with clear expectations and career development for every engineer.
• Define the team's metrics and service levels, and improve them release over release.
• Make the team's decisions data-driven and its quality measurable, and escalate early when risks cross team boundaries.
• Set the team's roadmap and the structure and mechanisms that deliver it, and negotiate the boundaries of the area with peer teams.
• Build the mechanisms and best practices that make the team's work repeatable, measurable, and improving.

A day in the life

What success looks like in the first twelve months

• Fleet telemetry flowing into one pipeline.
• Traceability from requirement to release live.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience in managing technical teams with significant personnel management experience and examples of developing engineers and building successful teams
• Experience establishing workflows, metrics, and service levels for a team, and making data-driven trade-offs between short- and long-term needs
• Experience leading a team where the problem and strategy are not yet fully defined, working backwards from the customer
• Experience building observability for large fleets or services, including telemetry pipelines and anomaly detection
• Experience integrating systems of record for traceability
• Experience across the full software development lifecycle, having shipped software and maintained it in production

Preferred Qualifications

• A record of writing clear narratives and running data-driven reviews
• Experience with telemetry from embedded devices or satellites
• Experience with AI-assisted anomaly triage
• Experience managing managers or leading several teams
• Experience setting a multi-year direction for an area, designing the team structure and mechanisms to deliver it, and aligning several teams around it
• Experience setting strategy where the problem, opportunity, and strategy are not defined, telling one-way from two-way doors, and presenting decisions and strategy narratives to senior leaders across the organization

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

USA, WA, Redmond - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually