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Description

WiFi has become a critical component to every home worldwide. eero, an Amazon Company, is the first product to deliver a whole home WiFi experience using mesh technology to make sure you never have to worry about connectivity ever again. We believe customers' deserve the best connectivity and smart home experience possible. To find out more about eero, please checkout eero.com.

The Connectivity team at eero is looking for an experienced engineering manager to lead a team of wireless networking engineers. This team's charter is to develop wireless and wired networking features to delight eero's consumer and business customers.

The role requires a manager who is a technical leader, who has deep understanding of embedded and business networking uses cases and solutions, who can drive projects from Product and ideation, through design, implementation, deployment, and all the way to field monitoring and iterative improvements in performance and customer experience; a team player, who works well with peers of all levels, who is comfortable and effective in an uncertain, fast-moving environment.

This is an opportunity to have a significant impact on all aspects of a new product line while working to build a world-class company that embodies great design, attention to detail, technological innovation, and quality.

Key job responsibilities

• Manage and develop an high-performance team of engineers

• Identify, champion, and deliver the highest impact engineering investments that your team needs in order to continue to deliver in the long term

• Partner with the Product team in defining and refining new requirements

• Collaborate with engineers, managers, and other stakeholders on requirements and execution of projects

• Guide and sometimes lead the definition of the technical solutions that would meet product requirements

• Manage, motivate and support the team members though their personal and professional challenges

• Communicate a rolled up status in an understandable way to a wide range of audiences.

• Estimate delivery dates with confidence intervals based on the measured team velocity, remaining work, and projected new work.

A day in the life

eero is a small and dynamic organization, and you will have a fair amount of control over how you pursue your and your team's goals. You will be constantly cooperating with other teams, within the Connectivity (Access Point Software) org, and with peers in the cloud, data, mobile, product, support and sales teams.

About the team

We are a small and energetic team, comitted to eero's and Amazon's success, as well as to personal growth

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Los Gatos, CA, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

• 8+ years of engineering experience

• 3+ years of experience managing development teams

• Deep understanding of embedded networking, especially in Linux environments

• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations

• Ability to correctly prioritize short and long term priorities

• Ability to handle and manage competing priorities

• Ability to correctly guide the team's work, based on previous experience, or educated assessment

• Ability to implement and enforce high quality standards in engineering deliverables

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy

• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

• Experience in designing, implementing and shipping new products

• Experience in hiring, mentoring and growing new engineers and managers

• Experience with C, Python and Golang programming languages

• Experience with cloud-managed Wifi

• Experience with small-business and enterprise networking

• Familiarity with wireless protocols

• Ability to quickly ramp up on the essentials of new technical areas

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $148,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.