Software Development Manager, AWS DynamoDB Global Tables

Amazon DynamoDB powers many of the worlds fastest-growing businesses Lyft Airbnb Redfin as well as enterprises like Samsung Toyota and Capital One. It also powers multiple high-traffic Amazon properties including Alexa and all Amazon fulfillment centers. As one of the largest distributed database systems in the world we believe it is always Day 1 and are constantly improving and adding new capabilities.

DynamoDB Global Tables enables customers to replicate their tables across multiple AWS regions providing low-latency reads and writes globally with built-in high availability and disaster recovery. We recently launched Multi-Region Strong Consistency (GT-MRSC) offering zero-RPO globally linearizable replication without a primary region alongside our established eventually-consistent Global Tables product. Our team owns the full stack: the core replication engine control plane workflows the strongly-consistent data plane and integration with multi-region journaling infrastructure. We operate at massive scale hundreds of thousands of active Global Tables across all commercial AWS regions.

We are looking for a deeply technical and passionate software development leader to drive this next chapter. As an SDM on Global Tables you will lead a team of SDEs building distributed systems that operate at the intersection of consistency availability and low-latency replication across AWS regions.

Key job responsibilities

Own both the people and technical direction for your team balancing customer-facing feature delivery operational excellence and long-term architectural investments
Partner with Principal Engineers peer SDMs and Product Managers to define customer experience drive design reviews and resolve cross-team dependencies across DynamoDB
Drive operational excellence for mission-critical services processing millions of requests per second owning production readiness incident reduction and on-call health
Hire mentor and grow engineers building tech leads guiding career development and fostering an inclusive team culture
Make pragmatic tradeoffs between delivery velocity system reliability and technical debt.

To succeed in this role you must be passionate about solving deep technical challenges and being a great people manager. You must care deeply about system availability and reliability and understand what it means to own a mission-critical service. You will exercise your intellectual curiosity hire and lead motivated teams of sharp individuals.

About the team
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- 1 years of engineering team management experience
- 7 years of engineering 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

- 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
- 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 and program management teams
- 1 years of developing large-scale multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience

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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