Software Development Manager , Aurora PostgreSQL Team

The Aurora organization is looking for an expert in performance engineering to deliver the optimization of open source and cloud native databases. You will build upon AWS advanced infrastructure innovations in compute storage networking and deliver software optimizations that fully exploits the cloud capabilities. You will have the opportunity to drive the roadmap for feature and performance improvements in the widely adopted Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL database engines.

Key job responsibilities
By joining our team you will have the opportunity to lead the innovation and deliver high performing database features that power Auroras performance.

As a manager of the Aurora Engineering Team you will be tasked to lead and participate in efforts around performance bottleneck analysis improvements in software driven by new hardware benchmarking efforts automated performance regression testing workload optimizations and capacity sizing.

You will play an instrumental role in driving the performance roadmap to deliver cost-effective and scalable database this role you will use and further develop your deep knowledge in areas including experiment design implementation and data analysis. You will innovate using machine learning techniques to understand customer workload patterns and identify specific optimizations to improve overall application performance.


A day in the life
You will work with the Aurora engineering teams and customers to analyze workloads and engineer solutions to drive performance improvements.

About the team
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the pioneer and recognized leader in the Cloud. We take databases to their limits - our customers rely on Aurora MySQL and Aurora PostgreSQL databases for their business and due to our scale we solve challenges no other database environment sees. We are creatively and disruptively solving some of the most complex database problems related to immense growth scaling high performance and high availability requirements.

- 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 CA East Palo Alto - 212700.00 - 287700.00 USD annually