Software Development Manager, Distributed SQL (DSQL) Control Plane

This is an important leadership position in the Aurora DSQL organization. Were looking for an experienced Software Development Manager to lead a team of 8-10 SDEs building and operating foundational infrastructure that touches every aspect of the DSQL service. Because your teams scope spans region builds APIs deployments monitoring and service integrations you will partner with every team in DSQL engine control plane data plane and beyond to deliver results for our customers. Success in this role requires someone who can build strong cross-team relationships drive alignment across organizational boundaries and deliver cohesive outcomes from many moving parts.

Aurora DSQL is a serverless distributed SQL database designed for high availability and strong consistency across multiple AWS Regions. Your teams work will directly impact the reliability scalability and operational posture of this service.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead hire mentor and grow a team of 8-10 SDEs fostering a culture of ownership operational excellence and continuous improvement
- Work across every team in the DSQL organization to coordinate unblock and deliver customer-facing outcomes that no single team could achieve alone
- Own region build infrastructure ensuring new regions can be stood up reliably and efficiently
- Drive gameday strategy and execution building muscle memory for operational readiness across the team and org
- Own AWS API and SDK surface area for DSQL ensuring APIs are well-designed consistent with AWS standards and provide a great developer experience
- Lead cellular architecture efforts designing and evolving the isolation boundaries that underpin DSQLs availability story
- Own AWS service integrations (IAM CloudWatch CloudTrail CloudFormation etc.) ensuring DSQL is a first-class citizen in the AWS ecosystem
- Build and evolve monitoring and observability tooling that gives the team deep insight into service health
- Rethink and re-architect the path from code to production identify and remove bottlenecks in build test and deployment pipelines to dramatically reduce friction and cycle time

About the team
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- 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
- 3 years of Software Engineer Software Developer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
- 1 years of developing large-scale multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java C# or C experience
- 1 years of developing large-scale multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture experience
- 1 years of developing large-scale multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- 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. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually