Software Development Manager, Global Tables (DynamoDB)

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon’s DynamoDB team in Seattle is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a group of engineers responsible for Global Tables and cross-region replication at massive scale.

You will own people and technical direction, partner with senior engineers and product managers, and push for operational excellence, reliability, and low latency. This role emphasizes deep technical leadership and team-building across a globally distributed service.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of engineering experience.
• 3+ years of Software Engineer/Software Developer experience.
• 1+ years of technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle.
• 1+ years of developing large-scale distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++.
• 1+ years of distributed programming experience with service-oriented architecture.

Responsibilities

• Own both the people and technical direction for your team — balancing customer-facing feature delivery, operational excellence, and long-term architectural investments.
• Partner with Principal Engineers, peer SDMs, and Product Managers to define customer experience, drive design reviews, and resolve cross-team dependencies across DynamoDB.
• Drive operational excellence for mission-critical services processing millions of requests per second — owning production readiness, incident reduction, and on-call health.
• Hire, mentor, and grow engineers — building tech leads, guiding career development, and fostering an inclusive team culture.
• Make pragmatic tradeoffs between delivery velocity, system reliability, and technical debt.

Skills

Engineering team management

Engineering experience

Software Engineer experience

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

Java/C#/C++ experience

SOA experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science/Engineering/Mathematics

Job description

Amazon’s DynamoDB team in Seattle is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a group of engineers responsible for Global Tables and cross-region replication at massive scale.

You will own people and technical direction, partner with senior engineers and product managers, and push for operational excellence, reliability, and low latency. This role emphasizes deep technical leadership and team-building across a globally distributed service.