Senior Software Development Manager, Amazon S3 Request Processing
Arlington, VAFull-timePosted Jul 21, 2026
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) provides industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance for object storage. Through the use of pioneering techniques in large-scale distributed computing, developers can durably store their data on AWS's proven computing infrastructure to achieve virtually limitless storage capacity at minimal cost. Amazon S3 provides simple APIs that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time. Customers of all sizes, from day one startups to the world's largest enterprises, use Amazon S3 to deliver next-generation applications that range from data analytics to AI to photo and video archives. While S3 has seen tremendous growth since launch in 2006, we are still in the early stages of realizing its full potential.
As a Sr. Manager, Software Development for S3 Request Processing, you will be responsible for leading a group of top talent that builds the software handling every S3 request at massive scale. Your organization owns the request processing platform, the business logic that implements S3's API surface, and the security controls that keep customer data safe. We build innovative software solutions to provide S3 customers secure, durable, available, and performant request handling with virtually infinite scale and extremely low cost. In this role you will drive the roadmap, deliver new functionality and architectures, and raise the bar for operational excellence. You'll lead multiple engineering teams to spearhead new technologies that change what is possible within S3. You'll also own the financial health of your services and engage directly with senior customers to represent the S3 business.
Success in this role requires a leader experienced in establishing and building relationships with a wide range of peers, including senior AWS leaders, customers at all levels of experience and responsibility, deeply technical software and systems engineers within the team, and partner organizations across S3 and AWS. This leader must have the proven skills to easily switch between weighing in on complex engineering details of a high-throughput, low-latency request path, taking a long-term view of the business, growing and developing the next generation of AWS engineering and management talent, and operating as a large-organization leader. It requires an ability to prioritize work for the direct team and partner teams, establish goals, and focus attention on the most important inputs to drive the desired business outcomes. This leader must be capable of scaling themselves and their team to meet the ever-increasing demands of a fast-growing business. You'll need to excel at hiring and developing your technical talent. S3's request processing tier is on the critical path for every customer interaction with the service worldwide, so a passion and discipline around operational excellence, security, and availability is essential. Come work hard and make history with Amazon S3!
Key job responsibilities
- Lead and grow a multi-team organization of senior engineers and engineering managers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, deep ownership, and customer obsession.
- Define and execute a 1 to 3 year technical roadmap, balancing near-term customer wins with long-horizon bets on query performance, table maintenance, metadata scale, and Iceberg evolution.
- Drive architectural decisions for distributed systems at exabyte scale, including metadata services, compaction and optimization pipelines, snapshot and transaction management, and engine integrations.
- Make S3 Tables the highest performing, most cost effective home for Apache Iceberg anywhere, and contribute back to the Iceberg open source project.
- Partner with product, business, and AWS analytics leadership to translate customer needs into engineering priorities that move adoption and trust.
- Establish operational excellence standards across availability, durability, latency, and throughput, and lead the org in exceeding them as the service scales.
- Recruit, develop, and retain top talent, building a diverse, high performing organization with a strong pipeline of future leaders.
- Represent S3 Tables in senior leadership reviews, customer engagements, and external forums with clarity and conviction.
About the team
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Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
- Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
USA, VA, Arlington - 220,100.00 - 297,700.00 USD annually
As a Sr. Manager, Software Development for S3 Request Processing, you will be responsible for leading a group of top talent that builds the software handling every S3 request at massive scale. Your organization owns the request processing platform, the business logic that implements S3's API surface, and the security controls that keep customer data safe. We build innovative software solutions to provide S3 customers secure, durable, available, and performant request handling with virtually infinite scale and extremely low cost. In this role you will drive the roadmap, deliver new functionality and architectures, and raise the bar for operational excellence. You'll lead multiple engineering teams to spearhead new technologies that change what is possible within S3. You'll also own the financial health of your services and engage directly with senior customers to represent the S3 business.
Success in this role requires a leader experienced in establishing and building relationships with a wide range of peers, including senior AWS leaders, customers at all levels of experience and responsibility, deeply technical software and systems engineers within the team, and partner organizations across S3 and AWS. This leader must have the proven skills to easily switch between weighing in on complex engineering details of a high-throughput, low-latency request path, taking a long-term view of the business, growing and developing the next generation of AWS engineering and management talent, and operating as a large-organization leader. It requires an ability to prioritize work for the direct team and partner teams, establish goals, and focus attention on the most important inputs to drive the desired business outcomes. This leader must be capable of scaling themselves and their team to meet the ever-increasing demands of a fast-growing business. You'll need to excel at hiring and developing your technical talent. S3's request processing tier is on the critical path for every customer interaction with the service worldwide, so a passion and discipline around operational excellence, security, and availability is essential. Come work hard and make history with Amazon S3!
Key job responsibilities
- Lead and grow a multi-team organization of senior engineers and engineering managers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, deep ownership, and customer obsession.
- Define and execute a 1 to 3 year technical roadmap, balancing near-term customer wins with long-horizon bets on query performance, table maintenance, metadata scale, and Iceberg evolution.
- Drive architectural decisions for distributed systems at exabyte scale, including metadata services, compaction and optimization pipelines, snapshot and transaction management, and engine integrations.
- Make S3 Tables the highest performing, most cost effective home for Apache Iceberg anywhere, and contribute back to the Iceberg open source project.
- Partner with product, business, and AWS analytics leadership to translate customer needs into engineering priorities that move adoption and trust.
- Establish operational excellence standards across availability, durability, latency, and throughput, and lead the org in exceeding them as the service scales.
- Recruit, develop, and retain top talent, building a diverse, high performing organization with a strong pipeline of future leaders.
- Represent S3 Tables in senior leadership reviews, customer engagements, and external forums with clarity and conviction.
About the team
ABOUT AWS:
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Basic qualifications
- 10+ years of engineering experience- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
Preferred qualifications
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams- Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, VA, Arlington - 220,100.00 - 297,700.00 USD annually