Engineering Lead, Cloud Database & Serverless Systems

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 298,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Inc. in Seattle is seeking a Senior Manager, Software Development for Aurora DSQL to lead the engineering, drive delivery of a serverless, distributed SQL database, and shape the technology strategy.

You will mentor engineers, partner with product teams, and own high‑impact programs across multiple concurrent projects, while building scalable, observable systems in a fast‑paced environment. This leadership role sits at the core of AWS's Aurora DSQL efforts, offering significant scope,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience.
• 5+ years of engineering team management.
• 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent programs in an Agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead an engineering team in the design, development, and deployment of new AWS services.
• Mentor and grow your engineering team.
• Design, implement and deliver state‑of‑the‑art distributed, high‑performance data and transaction management processing algorithms and solutions.
• Deploy and monitor new features in a highly available and fault tolerant system.

Skills

Engineering leadership

People management

Program management

Distributed systems

SQL databases

Job description

Amazon Inc. in Seattle is seeking a Senior Manager, Software Development for Aurora DSQL to lead the engineering, drive delivery of a serverless, distributed SQL database, and shape the technology strategy.

You will mentor engineers, partner with product teams, and own high‑impact programs across multiple concurrent projects, while building scalable, observable systems in a fast‑paced environment. This leadership role sits at the core of AWS's Aurora DSQL efforts, offering significant scope,