Software Development Manager, Aurora Compute & Services

Socket.dev; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 171,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Vancouver seeks a Software Development Manager to lead a core control plane team for Aurora Serverless v2. You will own architecture direction and drive delivery of enterprise-grade features, balancing reliability with performance.

You will mentor engineers, shape roadmaps with product management, and collaborate with customers to translate feedback into scalable cloud capabilities. This hands-on role emphasizes curiosity, craft, and team growth.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of engineering experience.
• 8+ years of leading multi-tier web services development.

Responsibilities

• Grow and foster talent from Junior to Senior devs on a daily basis.
• Establish mechanisms to efficiently run the team and prioritize backlog.
• Collaborate with PM and other engineering teams on roadmap strategy.

Skills

Engineering management

Team leadership

Software development

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Come join the growing RDS Aurora Serverless Control Plane team, innovating on behalf of our customers on a service that:

• Reliably manages a large fleet of cloud native databases for our customers freeing them from traditional database operations
• Guarantees best-in-class availability and failover capabilities to sustain the world’s most demanding workloads
• Orchestrates and automates the complete lifecycle of a database cluster from creation to operation to scale-up, scale-out and fail-over

Amazon Aurora Serverless Control Plane does all this and more. Amazon Aurora is a cloud-native relational database which combines the scalability and performance of the best NoSQL databases paired with full compatibility to the most popular relational open source databases - MySQL and PostgreSQL. Amazon Aurora can store petabytes of customer data and can handle peaks of millions of queries per second. As one of the fastest-growing services at the core of the AWS Cloud and also one of the largest managed database services in our business, your engineering decisions have widespread impact across AWS, Amazon, and beyond. Many of the world's fastest growing businesses depend on the scale and performance of Amazon Aurora and its control plane to support their mission-critical workloads. We continue to believe it is Day 1 for the Amazon Aurora business. We are constantly improving and adding new capabilities to Amazon Aurora.

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

A day in the life

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

About the team

About AWS

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 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.

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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN, BC, Vancouver - 171,400.00 - 286,200.00 CAD annually