Software Development Manager, Amazon DocumentDB

Amazon • Seattle, WA

2d • $184,900 - $250,200 • Onsite

About The Position

Our team develops Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), a fully-managed cloud database that enables customers to persist JSON documents and retrieve them with query language. We are developing new query capabilities, pushing the bounds of performance, driving distributed systems innovation in scalability and high availability, and investing in user experience. As a leader on the team, you will collaborate with your reports, peers, and senior leadership to help shape the product vision, and you will own your team’s engineering plan and execution. As a manager, you will hire, organize, and serve a group of passionate, talented engineers in research, prototyping, software design, and implementation. You will lead the team in honing its processes and in building team culture, and you will facilitate engineers' career development. Depending on your specific role within the organization, your team may focus on core database technology, distributed systems, telemetry and developer tools, or a multiplicity of these areas. If you are excited by the prospect of making it easier for customers to store, query, and analyze data at scale; if you are interested in databases, operating systems, distributed systems, and/or developer tools; and if you are looking to build and serve a high-performing team of engineers – we would love to hear from you.

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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

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

• Collaborate with reports, peers, and senior leadership to help shape the product vision.
• Own your team’s engineering plan and execution.
• Hire, organize, and serve a group of passionate, talented engineers in research, prototyping, software design, and implementation.
• Lead the team in honing its processes and in building team culture.
• Facilitate engineers' career development.

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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

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