Software Dev Mgr, Aurora O Source Control Plane

Amazon • Seattle, WA

22h

About The Position

Come join the growing RDS Aurora Serverless Control Plane team, innovating on
behalf of our customers on a service that:

- Reliably manages a large fleet of cloud native databases for our customers
freeing them from traditional database operations
- Guarantees best-in-class availability and failover capabilities to sustain the
world’s most demanding workloads
- Orchestrates and automates the complete lifecycle of a database cluster from
creation to operation to scale-up, scale-out and fail-over

Amazon Aurora Serverless Control Plane does all this and more. Amazon Aurora is
a cloud-native relational database which combines the scalability and
performance of the best NoSQL databases paired with full compatibility to the
most popular relational open source databases - MySQL and PostgreSQL. Amazon
Aurora can store petabytes of customer data and can handle peaks of millions of
queries per second. As one of the fastest-growing services at the core of the
AWS Cloud and also one of the largest managed database services in our business,
your engineering decisions have widespread impact across AWS, Amazon, and
beyond. Many of the world's fastest growing businesses depend on the scale and
performance of Amazon Aurora and its control plane to support their
mission-critical workloads. We continue to believe it is Day 1 for the Amazon
Aurora business. We are constantly improving and adding new capabilities to
Amazon Aurora.

As a Software Development Manager in this role, you will own a core part of the
Control Plane charter, responsible for Aurora Serverless v2 and its wide array
of enterprise features.

You will work in a highly collaborative, diverse and engaging environment that
attracts talent and provides ample opportunities to grow and learn. You will
have the freedom to shape how the team works and what mechanisms and processes
you want to establish to achieve the teams and organizations goals and deliver
results to our customers. This role gives you the opportunity to have an impact
on the future of Aurora and its future growth.

In this role you provide technical direction and guidance to the team you are
working with. Our engineers know that building a control plane to manage large
scale cloud native databases is fun and challenging. It is not just any
distributed system. It is a system orchestrating a distributed storage engine
operating with petabyte scale data sets, real-time node failure detection
mechanisms, multi-datacenter and cross-continent replication. You will coach
junior and intermediate members of the team to become established contributors
to our service by providing interesting and aspirational projects and mentoring
them to successfully complete them. You will collaborate with senior engineers
to work on large and complex features that have impact across different teams in
the organization and high value for our customers.

You will also work directly with our customers to gather feedback and understand
their use-cases. Together with the Aurora leadership this will help you to shape
a vision for the team and define and align roadmap and deliveries with our
product management. You will lead the delivery of new features both
customer-facing and improving operational and technical efficiency of the
solution. You will have an impact on our new offerings by taking advantage of
your knowledge of industry trends and engineering tradeoffs and your ability to
listen and understand the customer. You will be a thoughtful steward of existing
systems, appropriately challenging assumptions and driving change when necessary
to allow us to scale for growth.

This is a hands-on position in which you will be asked to show ownership. If you
are technically knowledgeable and a good collaborator and communicator that can
lead with empathy for our customers and engineers, then this is for you. We
don’t need you to be an expert in databases. You will have a chance to learn on
the go. We rather appreciate curiosity and craftsmanship over knowledge in
specific technologies. At the same time you will benefit from interacting with
many of the talented people within AWS and they will help you improve and expand
your management and technical skills on a daily basis.

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational
services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute
Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to
set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC
organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute,
Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps
services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized
security solutions for their cloud services

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

Nice To Haves

• 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

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

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed