Software Development Manager, AWS DynamoDB
About The Position
The DynamoDB Capacity and Customer Entitlement team is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead mission-critical capacity management initiatives. This role involves guiding a high-performing engineering team in solving complex problems that impact millions of customers worldwide, balancing business requirements with innovative software solutions. The position offers the opportunity to influence organizational strategy and drive operational excellence through data-driven capacity management, ensuring DynamoDB maintains its legendary reliability and performance while optimizing infrastructure costs and enabling sustainable growth.
Requirements
- 7+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience
- 5+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience
- 1+ years of engineering team management experience
- 1+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
- Bachelor's 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
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
- Lead and mentor a team of engineers to streamline DynamoDB fleet planning, capacity scaling operations, and capacity optimization initiatives that support millions of customer workloads
- Drive strategic decision-making by partnering with DynamoDB leadership, Finance, and hardware providing teams to deliver actionable insights and data required for key trade-off decisions
- Balance complex technical and business requirements while collaborating with internal stakeholders across multiple organizations to deliver scalable software solutions
- Establish team vision, roadmaps, and architectural decisions that align with long-term organizational goals and customer needs
- Create mechanisms for continuous improvement in capacity management processes, operational efficiency, and team performance while maintaining high engineering standards
Benefits
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
