As a Software Development Manager in this role, you will own a core part of the Control Plane charter, responsible for Aurora Serverless v2 and its wide array of enterprise features.
You will work in a highly collaborative, diverse and engaging environment that attracts talent and provides ample opportunities to grow and learn. You will have the freedom to shape how the team works and what mechanisms and processes you want to establish to achieve the teams and organizations goals and deliver results to our customers. This role gives you the opportunity to have an impact on the future of Aurora and its future growth.
In this role you provide technical direction and guidance to the team you are working with. Our engineers know that building a control plane to manage large scale cloud native databases is fun and challenging. It is not just any distributed system. It is a system orchestrating a distributed storage engine operating with petabyte scale data sets, real-time node failure detection mechanisms, multi-datacenter and cross-continent replication. You will coach junior and intermediate members of the team to become established contributors to our service by providing interesting and aspirational projects and mentoring them to successfully complete them. You will collaborate with senior engineers to work on large and complex features that have impact across different teams in the organization and high value for our customers.
You will also work directly with our customers to gather feedback and understand their use-cases. Together with the Aurora leadership this will help you to shape a vision for the team and define and align roadmap and deliveries with our product management. You will lead the delivery of new features both customer-facing and improving operational and technical efficiency of the solution. You will have an impact on our new offerings by taking advantage of your knowledge of industry trends and engineering tradeoffs and your ability to listen and understand the customer. You will be a thoughtful steward of existing systems, appropriately challenging assumptions and driving change when necessary to allow us to scale for growth.
This is a hands-on position in which you will be asked to show ownership. If you are technically knowledgeable and a good collaborator and communicator that can lead with empathy for our customers and engineers, then this is for you. We don't need you to be an expert in databases. You will have a chance to learn on the go. We rather appreciate curiosity and craftsmanship over knowledge in specific technologies. At the same time you will benefit from interacting with many of the talented people within AWS and they will help you improve and expand your management and technical skills on a daily basis.
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Key job responsibilities
- Grow and foster talent from Junior to Senior devs on a daily basis
- Establish mechanisms to efficiently run the team and help prioritize and balance the backlog
- Work with PM and other engineering teams on roadmap strategy and prioritization
- Share updates to the leadership team on the teams deliverables
- Review designs and help shape the teams design documents
- Manage and drive the operational ownership of the team
About the team
The Aurora Global Database Control Plane team is a team of seasoned Sr. Developers and growing talent engineers, who own the complete lifecycle and service components of the cross-region, high availability marquee feature of Aurora. They set the bar high for what we deliver to our most demanding customers.
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
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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
