Software Development Manager, EC2 Managed AWS Geographic Expansion at Amazon
Herndon, VA
$184,900–$250,200from the description
Aug 15, 2026
Herndon, VA
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An engineering manager role on AWS's Geographic Expansion team, responsible for leading a group of software engineers who build and maintain the automation tooling that provisions new AWS Regions and Availability Zones. The manager owns hiring, coaching, career development, and priority-setting for the team, while staying technically engaged through design reviews and stakeholder coordination. Suits an experienced engineering leader with a distributed-systems background who can balance people management with hands-on technical judgment.
Senior level · 7+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,650 people in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 1,000–2,500
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
What the occupation pays Median $199,482 (middle half $174,883–$233,831). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 18, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The posting lists two Virginia locations (Arlington and Herndon) with the same salary band ($184,900–$250,200/year); both fall within the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria CBSA.
The 7+ years of engineering experience is used as the overall years minimum; the 8+ years of multi-tier web services experience is a separately stated gate captured on that skill.
Java, C#, and C++ are listed as interchangeable options for the distributed-systems language requirement; Java is named first.
'Distributed systems' and 'service-oriented architecture' appear as distinct qualifiers in the same requirement block and are captured separately, even though they are conceptually related — the posting gates on each explicitly.
The role is clearly a people-management position (hiring, performance reviews, career development, resource planning) mapped to 11-3021; the alt SOC reflects the substantial technical depth required.
The posting mentions 'latest AI technologies' in narrative context only, with no specific tool or platform named, so no AI skill is emitted.
'Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle' is a generic methodology statement with no named technology and is omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
Ignored 3 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): service-oriented architecture, multi-tier web services, engineering team management.
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