Senior Manager, Software Development, Aurora DSQL

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a high-caliber engineering leader to drive the Aurora DSQL service. This role will oversee the design, development, and deployment of cutting-edge AWS services, while mentoring a growing team of engineers in a fast-paced environment.

The successful candidate will have deep software engineering expertise, strong communication skills, and proven experience managing complex distributed data and transaction processing projects within a cloud-native context.

Qualifications

• Requires strong software engineering, project management, and people management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication; ability to deliver high-quality results.

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 distributed, high-performance data and transaction processing algorithms and solutions.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud computing

People management

Software engineering

Job description

Description

Does working on an innovative and transformational serverless database excite you? Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, high availability, and zero infrastructure management. Our vision is to make Aurora DSQL the best database service offering for all types of workloads. This is a once in a generation opportunity to shape the future of databases and make history.

Description

Does working on an innovative and transformational serverless database excite you? Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, high availability, and zero infrastructure management. Our vision is to make Aurora DSQL the best database service offering for all types of workloads. This is a once in a generation opportunity to shape the future of databases and make history.

The Query Processing team of Aurora DSQL owns everything in the life cycle of a SQL statement like Parsing, Analysis (syntax and semantic), Rewriting, Planning (Optimizer) and Execution while providing customers access to observability metrics to help them understand their database performance better.

A successful candidate for this role is expected to have deep software engineering, project management, and people management skills. They must possess strong verbal and written communication skills, be self-driven, and have the ability to deliver high quality results in a fast-paced environment.

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, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services

Key job 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.