Software Development Manager, Amazon Neptune

Amazon Neptune is a fast scalable fully-managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. The core of Amazon Neptune is a purpose-built high-performance graph database engine optimized for storing hundreds of billions of relationships and querying with milliseconds latency allowing you to easily build queries that efficiently navigate highly connected datasets. Neptune works actively with the Apache TinkerPop Gremlin open-source project.

Neptune powers graph use cases such as recommendation engines fraud detection knowledge graphs drug discovery network security and many more. Amazon Neptune is built for cloud scalability durability availability and performance.

To learn more about Amazon Neptune visit: job responsibilities
We are looking for an experienced strong self-motivated software development manager who is excited to solve database problems handle people management and product prioritization. You will enable and support the engineers on the team to design and deliver new features that drive Neptunes high availability reliability and performance guarantees to AWS customers. You will participate in project execution to develop cutting-edge database service capabilities while working with amazing team members and stakeholders.

A day in the life
Lead the development of cloud-native database
Design implement test and deploy database services optimized for cloud environments
Mentor engineers and managers while contributing hands-on technical work
Drive technical decisions design tradeoffs and feature prioritization
Partner with senior executives to define business targets and resource planning
Build and scale engineering teams through recruitment and talent development
Shape technical strategy to deliver innovative solutions for customers


- 5 years of engineering team management experience
- 10 years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3 years of leading development of applications backed by AWS services or using other cloud based technologies and services experience
- 10 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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.