Software Development Manager, RDS for Oracle

Were a team within the Relational Database Service one of the fastest growing businesses within AWS. Were looking for a seasoned talented software engineering manager in Vancouver Canada for RDS for Oracle Service. Our service provides managed reliable scalable and highly available relational databases on demand. We minimize the effort required to maintain relational databases by automating administrative tasks like backup / restore scaling compute/storage and replication / failover for high availability allowing our customers to spend their valuable time focused on building their businesses.

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You have a passion for software development and are ready to help guide this team forward - youre comfortable with Windows technology and have strong experience writing code. You can explain why various design patterns are both awesome and constraining youve seen production code fail (and fixed) in spectacular ways - and learned from it. Youve come to the understanding that being passionate about an idea is different than taking it personally and believe that debate makes strong ideas stronger.

Youve written and/or released lots of software shipped products and contributed to platforms tools and modules. Having worked with several frameworks designs and scaling models you understand the challenges involved with building big distributed systems used by thousands of people every day - and relish them. You love to learn new things and to grow.

Who are you Youre the new Software Development Manager joining us at RDS. We work hard have fun and make history - lets go play.

What Youll Do

Hire mentor and manage a team of software developers including their projects and performance
Deliver project roadmap on time / in spec communicating clearly with team management and stakeholders
Work with other managers and team members to estimate effort and document scope / design
Contribute to and lead design architecture process and development discussions
Distill and communicate technical concepts to the team and other stakeholders
Argue for the right outcomes with data conviction and diplomacy



- 3 years of engineering team management experience
- 7 years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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 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

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company Amazons package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription basic life & AD&D insurance) Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) paid time off and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN BC Vancouver - 171400.00 - 286200.00 CAD annually