Sr. Software Manager, Aurora Storage

Are you looking to work on the coolest technology while growing your career in a group that cares about people just as much as products

Amazon Aurora is an exciting area of innovation for AWS with MySQL and Postgres compatible versions available. These offer enterpriseclass performance availability and durability all at open source prices to our customers along with the management benefits of RDS. Were are one of the fastest growing businesses within Amazon Web Services. We are currently spread across Seattle the San Francisco Bay Area. Not only do we have deep database storage and systems programming problems to solve for our customers but we also minimize the effort required to maintain SQL databases by automating administrative tasks like backup / restore scaling CPU / RAM / storage and replication / failover for high availability allowing our customers to spend their valuable time focused on building their businesses.

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Site Leader to spearhead the expansion of our operations in Berlin. This is an exciting time for growth and you will be responsible for establishing and managing the new site and ensuring operational excellence. Key responsibility include leading cross functional teams managing site performance overseeing recruitment and fostering a strong company culture. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in leadership with a proven track record of successfully scaling operations. With your handson technical expertise and strategic vision you will play a pivotal role in evolving the capabilities of the Aurora Berlin team.

Key job responsibilities
We make regular software releases take care of our customers and take care of our engineers. Aurora is the most advanced cloud database service out there and were proud to continuously raise the bar. We think we have a winning combination for both startups and enterprises who are moving all their most important data and applications to the cloud.

We have challenging problems to solve in distributed systems concurrency petabyte scale OLTP storage systems and scale out cluster management. We intend to be the worlds best and fastest database built by an excellent team all while having fun come join us on the journey!
Amazon Aurora is powered by an autoscaling autohealing distributed storage cluster of massive worldwide scale. Storage platform team is looking for a Development Manager to join our team and help us take the service to the next level. To apply for this role you should possess solid analytical design and problem diagnosis skills. Expertise with highperformance systems or service design is a plus. You should be comfortable building and managing teams through all phases of software development including hiring and growing your own team of managers. The ability to translate highlevel technical requirements into executable project plans is essential. If this sounds like you come join us and help AWS continue to lead the cloud computing revolution.

A day in the life
What is in it for you
Huge impact: Work on a service that will be used directly and indirectly by millions of customers.
Gratification: You will know you are solving problems most software developers dont yet know exist.
Critical: Databases are cornerstones to many of our customers applications.
Ownership: you will quickly become responsible for key components of the service.
Learn: If want to learn about challenges of largescale fault tolerant systems in practice this is an opportunity of a lifetime.
Innovate: We learn from our customers and invent every day.
Make history: AWS is the leader in a current industry wide revolution.
Have fun: Surround yourself with engineers that like to solve complex problems but also work in a fun environment.
For more information about Aurora please visit the team
Amazon Aurora provides unparalleled highperformance and availability at global scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. Aurora has broad compliance standards and bestinclass security capabilities. Aurora offers storage resiliency by making data durable across 3 AZs (customers only pay for 1 copy). Aurora has up to 99.99% availability and customers can access local read performance with Global Database when deployed across AWS Regions. With serverless Aurora can scaleup to hundreds of millions of transactions.

Aurora databases is backed up by a purpose built distributed storage service. This is a purpose built storage service to handle the relentless OLTP transactional load both from latency and throughput. Aurora storage is fault tolerant highly redundant and continuously backs up data.


About the team
Utility Computing (UC)

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. Within AWS UC Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

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Experience managing multiple concurrent programs projects and development teams in an Agile environment
8 years experience building successful production software systems
6 years management experience including a combination of experience hiring managing performance and providing technical leadership
2 years experience managing managers
8 years experience developing largescale multitiered distributed software systems using C/C serviceoriented architecture; and distributed programming

Experience designing and developing large scale hightraffic applications
Experiences in working closely with remote teams
Experience in communicating with users other technical teams and management to collect requirements describe software product features and technical designs.
Passionate about learning new technologies frameworks and processes that can reinvent developer experiences.
Masters or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent.

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