Software Development Manager, Aurora Storage

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll 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.
Looking to be part of a team building hyperscale database services in the cloud Do you want to revolutionize the way people manage vast volumes of data in the cloud where you have direct and immediate impact on hundreds of thousands of users who use AWS database services

Aurora is a distributed faulttolerant database service leveraging a selfhealing storage system that autoscales up to 128TB it performs up to five times faster than standard MySQL databases and three times faster than standard PostgreSQL databases.
Aurora is one of the fastestgrowing AWS services with business and engineering decisions having a widespread impact across many of the worlds fastest growing businesses! Our customers depend on the performance of our services to scale and support their missioncritical workloads.

Operating much like a startup we have a very flat organizational structure and a casual office vibe but leverage all the resources and stability of being the largest cloud provider.

About the team the Amazon Aurora Storage team focuses on building storage solution for database services that provide high availability and durability.

We are looking for a highly skilled experienced and motivated engineering leader to solve platform and tooling challenges at a massive scale. You will lead teams that design and deliver services for extensive scalability and manageability of AWS Aurora. You will participate in product direction and roadmap planning project execution scheduling and hiring engineers to develop cuttingedge database platform services. This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fastgrowing service and help shape the technology product and the business direction. A successful candidate will bring deep technical and leadership expertise and ability to work within a fastpaced startup culture in a large company to deliver solid code that has a broad business impact.

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3 years of engineering team management experience
7 years of engineering 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
Proficiency in at least one modern programming language e.g. Java C# or C
5 years of experience managing an Agile team of 10 software development engineers
Experience building scalable distributed systems with service oriented architectures

Experience in recruiting hiring mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective product software engineers
Experience managing a team of high calibre Software Engineers developing complex world class scalable software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Experience with distributed databases and/or storage systems
A deep understanding of software engineering practices objectoriented analysis & design design patterns and algorithms
Demonstrated strong technical judgment in conjunction with passionate customerfocus

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