Software Development Manager

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazon s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS. Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
The Amazon Aurora Platform team focuses on building scalable control plane services and patterns to support the rapid growth of Aurora.

Imagine a database where you dont have to worry about the configuration or capacity of your database. Where you dont have to worry about what kind of load that your product or service will put on it and you only pay for what you use. Want to learn more? Then read on.

Aurora Limitless Database makes it easy for you to scale your relational database workloads by providing a serverless endpoint that automatically distributes data and queries across multiple Amazon Aurora Serverless instances while maintaining the transactional consistency of a single database. Aurora Limitless Database offers capabilities such as distributed query planning and transaction management, eliminating the need for you to create custom solutions or manage multiple databases to scale. As your workloads increase, Aurora Limitless Database adds additional compute resources while staying within your specified budget, so there is no need to provision for peak, and compute automatically scales down when demand is low. With Amazon Aurora Limitless Database we aim to do nothing less than revolutionize the database business taking steps of scale-out approach and providing managed sharding of the data.

To learn more about Amazon Aurora Limitless Database visit: Aurora Limitless Database

We are looking for experienced, passionate and curious engineering leaders to innovate with us on behalf of our customers. In this role, you will lead teams that design and implement systems that orchestrate thousands of databases. Your team will build and continue to innovate in area of a foundational building block to secure high performant communication mechanism for distributed database system of Aurora Limitless Database. You will lead team in designing, implementing, and owning high and low level system components make Aurora Limitless Database highly available, scalable, reliable and fast. You will participate in product direction and road-map planning, project execution scheduling and hiring engineers.

This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast-growing AWS service and have an impact on the future shape of the cutting-edge database technology, and of the cloud in general. Your decisions will directly affect Aurora s large customer base. We count on your deep technical and leadership expertise, good judgement, eagerness to learn and ability to collaborate across teams. We will give you the opportunity to work with and learn from our senior managers and principal engineers, AWS s pragmatic visionaries.

About Us

We recognize new team members need time to ramp-up and feel fully comfortable within the team. You will have a launch buddy, a manager who will help you navigate through this processes offering you help and mentorship.

We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal life.

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40, 000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.





About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating that s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth s Best Employer. That s why you ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there s nothing we can t achieve in the cloud - 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
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems