Software Development Manager, AWS Distributed SQL

Amazon Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, highest availability, and zero infrastructure management. Aurora DSQL provides active-active high availability, providing strong data consistency designed for 99.99% single-Region and 99.999% multi-Region availability. Aurora DSQL automatically manages and scales system resources, so you don't have to worry about maintenance downtime and provisioning, patching, or upgrading infrastructure.

Key job responsibilities

As a Software Development Manager on the storage team, you will be responsible for leading a strong team of software engineers to build a high performance storage service / engine that is able to support all types of database workloads. You will be responsible for mentoring and coaching a high performing team of engineers with expertise in both low-level and distributed sysetms You be responsible for the full development life cycle and and operation of services. You will with the product team and other engineering teams to help build the roadmap and ensure the right thing is being built and delivered to customers.

A day in the life

You will take on a variety of tasks, balancing priorities to ensure the team's success:

- Create, prioritize, communicate, manage, and execute roadmaps, projects, and other commitments.

- Set clear, measurable goals for the team and regularly communicate status of development, quality, operations, and system performance.

- Lead the team to improve processes to deliver higher software development velocity and quality.

- Lead team operational strategy defining metrics, improvements and support.

- Foster a culture of continuous improvement through coaching, mentoring, and feedback.

About the team

The Storage team for Aurora DSQL owns the storage service which manages reading and writing data to handle queries.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience

- 7+ years of engineering experience

- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience

- 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

- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

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

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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

USA, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually