Senior Software Development Manager, Hydro

• Hydro is an emerging framework for building correct, performant distributed systems born at Berkeley and evolving in open source with a center of gravity at AWS. We are looking for a Senior Software Development

Description

• Hydro is an emerging framework for building correct, performant distributed systems born at Berkeley and evolving in open source with a center of gravity at AWS. We are looking for a Senior Software Development Manager to lead the AWS Hydro team, own the technical strategy, scale the engineering organization, and grow the open source community. This is a high-visibility role to help define the future of reliable and agile software engineering, guided by AI and protected by cutting-edge correctness techniques. This is an opportunity to work with AWS leaders in collaboration with technologists from Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz. You'll collaborate on products targeted at a broad audience: internal AWS developers building some of our most critical infrastructure, and open-source innovators building the next generation of reliable, scalable services. The role offers high visibility internally with AWS leadership, and externally in open source. • Lead the vision and execution for the Hydro team centered at AWS • Build and scale a world-class engineering team delivering the core framework, compiler, simulation-testing framework, and deployment harnesses • Drive open source community growth, partner engagement, and ecosystem expansion • Represent Hydro to customers, partners, and developers Key job responsibilities • Own the roadmap, delivery, and operations for the Hydro framework spanning the language APIs, tool ecosystem, observability and deployment patterns. • Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing engineering organization, fostering a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and speed. • Drive open source community strategy including contributor experience, governance, ecosystem expansion. • Set and raise the technical bar — establish AI-assisted development workflows, drive architectural decisions, and ensure the framework remains model-driven and developer-friendly. • Drive executive alignment through VP-level reviews, PR/FAQs, and strategic narratives positioning Hydro within AWS's broader SDLC strategy. • Champion production readiness — own deployment toolkits, reference architectures, and observability patterns for both green-field and brown-field adoption, taking distributed systems written in Hydro from prototype to production. • Represent Hydro externally at conferences, in blog posts, and through direct customer engagement. A day in the life You'll split your time between strategic leadership and hands-on technical engagement. Mornings might include reviewing community PRs and contributor roadmaps, followed by architecture deep-dives with your engineering leads on multi-agent orchestration. Afternoons could involve partnering with AWS Kiro or Automated Reasoning teams on integration work, presenting roadmap updates to VP-level stakeholders, or engaging directly with customers adopting Hydro for production workloads. You operate as the single-threaded owner for Hydro across open source, product, and engineering. About the team We're a high-ownership, high-velocity team of technologists and developers operating in a space that many of us pioneered at Berkeley. The bulk of the original Hydro team is now in this group at AWS, including the science and development leads; new PhD students at Berkeley continue to push the envelope in collaboration with us, alongside the broader open-source community. The team is now growing beyond its initial startup-style mode: the software is gaining adoption in high-stakes use cases, and we’re bringing on more engineering talent both junior and senior. Coming out of the university and startups with a will to have impact, we foster an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing, mentorship and working backward from customer needs. Senior members engage in one-on-one mentoring as well as customer engagement, and we care deeply about career growth — assigning projects that build both product and technical expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex challenges over time.

Basic Qualifications

• - 10+ years of engineering experience - 5+ years of engineering team management experience - 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience - Experience partnering with product or program management teams - Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment

Preferred Qualifications