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

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 teams metrics and service levels and improve them release over release.
Make the teams decisions data-driven and its quality measurable and escalate early when risks cross team boundaries.
Set the teams 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 teams 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.




About the team
D2D Software is an evolving organization of many teams: Software Architecture & Specifications; Software Delivery & Business Ops; Software Integration Verification & Reliability; DevOps & Release; Satellite Software Development; Ground Software Development; and Customer Software Engineering & Support. Each Director owns business outcomes: delivering the commitments and the capability and efficiency of their teams. Teams work as internal customers and suppliers with agreed service levels interfaces are agreed centrally while designs stay local and engineers are expected to work directly with engineers across every boundary. Milestones are committed deadlines for delivery with quality not gates to wait on and every team runs on one toolchain and one system of record. Every measure is derived from the systems of record never self-reported and we improve release over release with a target of perfection.

- Bachelors 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

- 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

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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 WA Redmond - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually