Software Development Manager - AWS Aurora Limitless Database, Aurora Team

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Software Development Manager, where you'll lead innovative teams to revolutionize database technology. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence the future of cloud services by managing the development of scalable and reliable database systems. You'll collaborate with talented engineers, engage in strategic planning, and drive enhancements that impact a vast customer base. If you're passionate about technology and leadership, this position is perfect for you, providing a platform to showcase your expertise while contributing to cutting-edge solutions in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of engineering experience in software development.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams in designing and implementing distributed database systems.
• Participate in product direction and road-map planning.

Skills

Engineering Team Management

Multi-Tier Web Services

Software Development Life Cycle

Design Patterns

Reliability and Scaling

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Source Control Management

Build Processes

Testing and Certification Tools

Job description

Software Development Manager - AWS Aurora Limitless Database, Aurora Team

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 don't have to worry about the configuration or capacity of your database. Where you don't 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.

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.

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
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

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
- 3+ years of designing and taking part in implementing (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

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Posted: February 18, 2025 (Updated 34 minutes ago)

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