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Software Development Manager, EC2 Instance Placement

Amazon - Cape Town, Western Cape, ZAF

Posted Mar 25, 2026

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Software Development Manager, EC2 Instance Placement Cape Town, Western Cape, ZAF EC2 Instance Placement owns the systems that decide on which physical hosts EC2 instances are placed when they are launched. The systems execute real-time optimizations across a variety of dimensions every time a new EC2 instance is launched. Your Role and Potential Impact - Lead a team of Software Development Engineers to build and run the control plane and data streaming systems that drive EC2 instance placement decisions - Create the vision and drive the roadmap for your team, thinking big about how data can be leveraged to improve how EC2 offers compute power to customers - Attract and grow hire-performing engineers for your team - Mentor and coach your team members and foster an inclusive engineering culture - Maintain a high-level of operational excellence - Lead and refine the team's agile software development process The successful Software Development Manager has solid technical leadership experience and a proven track-record in managing teams to deliver results. You have a strong software engineering background, with an interest towards optimization, machine learning and data streaming technologies. You demonstrate bias for action to get the right things done and engage thoughtfully with customers and stakeholders to understand their needs. You show excellent judgement in establishing priorities, and can successfully manage implementation in an agile environment. We move fast and work closely together on small teams to solve big problems. This role is unique in the breadth of connections across AWS - from CPU/networking

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