Software Development Manager, Amazon Neptune

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 166,400 - 287,700; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Employee equity options

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

A leading technology company in Seattle seeks a Software Development Manager to lead their Amazon Neptune team. The role involves managing engineers, driving the development of a high-performance cloud-native database service, and shaping technical strategies. Ideal candidates will have over 10 years of engineering experience, strong leadership skills, and a background in AWS. Competitive salary and benefits offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 10+ years experience with engineering teams.
• 3+ years developing applications using AWS services.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of cloud-native database.
• Mentor engineers and contribute hands-on.
• Drive technical decisions and resource planning.

Skills

Engineering team management

Database service development

Cloud technologies

Technical strategy

Mentoring engineers

Job description

Overview

Amazon Neptune is a fast, scalable, fully-managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. The core of Amazon Neptune is a purpose-built, high-performance graph database engine optimized for storing hundreds of billions of relationships and querying with milliseconds latency, allowing you to easily build queries that efficiently navigate highly connected datasets. Neptune works actively with the Apache TinkerPop Gremlin open-source project. Neptune powers graph use cases such as recommendation engines, fraud detection, knowledge graphs, drug discovery, network security, and many more. Amazon Neptune is built for cloud scalability, durability, availability, and performance.

To learn more about Amazon Neptune visit: https://aws.amazon.com/neptune/

Key job responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced, strong, self-motivated software development manager who is excited to solve database problems, handle people management and product prioritization. You will enable and support the engineers on the team to design and deliver new features that drive Neptune's high availability, reliability and performance guarantees to AWS customers. You will participate in project execution to develop cutting-edge database service capabilities while working with amazing team members and stakeholders.

A day in the life

• Lead the development of cloud-native database
• Design, implement, test, and deploy database services optimized for cloud environments
• Mentor engineers and managers while contributing hands-on technical work
• Drive technical decisions, design tradeoffs, and feature prioritization
• Partner with senior executives to define business targets and resource planning
• Build and scale engineering teams through recruitment and talent development
• Shape technical strategy to deliver innovative solutions for customers

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering team management experience
• 10+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of leading development of applications backed by AWS services or using other cloud based technologies and services experience
• 10+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.