We're seeking a Software Development Manager to lead an engineering team within
Amazon's Center of Excellence for Orchestration (ORCA). This role offers the
prospect to shape the future of Amazon's tier-1, multi-tenant orchestration
platform that powers mission-critical business workflows across Amazon's diverse
ecosystem, from Retail to Digital Services and beyond.
ORCA is built on HERD and serves as the backbone for implementing complex
business processes through workflow automation. As a tier-1 service, it delivers
operational excellence with automated scaling, throttling, and retry mechanisms,
handling peak loads without customer intervention. The platform handles the
complexity of orchestration (execution, monitoring, and fault tolerance) so
developers can focus on designing business workflows. It supports synchronous
request-response, asynchronous execution, time-based scheduling, and
event-driven triggers while seamlessly integrating with AWS services and SDO
solutions like Datapath and Sable.
You'll drive technical excellence by establishing roadmaps and ensuring
operational reliability across the platform. Your team will build robust,
scalable solutions that maintain high availability for Amazon's most critical
business operations. The ideal candidate brings strong technical leadership in
distributed systems and workflow orchestration, with exceptional system design
skills and a proven track record in engineering management. You'll collaborate
with product management, architecture teams, and business stakeholders while
maintaining focus on engineering excellence and operational reliability. Basic
Qualifications: - 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services
experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full
software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards,
code reviews, source co