Software Dev Mgr, Aurora PostgreSQL

Are you interested in building hyper-scale database services in the cloud Do you want to revolutionize the way databases are built for the cloud Do you want to have direct and immediate impact on hundreds of thousands of users who use AWS database services

Amazon Aurora is an exciting new area of innovation for AWS and the Postgres-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora is built on one of the most active code bases in the open source community. The Postgres-compatible version of Amazon Aurora is a relational database which offers enterprise-class performance availability and durability to our customers along with the management benefits of RDS. We are one of the fastest growing businesses within Amazon Web Services.

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Engine team is looking for experienced engineering leader in relational databases and/or large scale storage system technologies who are excited about building large scale database systems that run across thousands of servers across multiple datacenters worldwide. 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 cutting-edge database platform services. This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast-growing 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 fast-paced startup culture in a large company to deliver solid code that has a broad business impact.

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! For more information about Aurora please visit job responsibilities
- Grow and foster talent from Junior to Senior devs on a daily basis
- Establish mechanisms to efficiently run the team and help prioritize and balance the backlog
- Work with PM and other engineering teams on roadmap strategy and prioritization
- Share updates to the leadership team on the teams deliverables
- Review designs and help shape the teams design documents
- Manage and drive the operational ownership of the team

- 3 years of engineering team management experience
- 7 years of engineering 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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287700/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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.