Software Development Manager, AWS Aurora PostgreSQL engine

Are you interested in building hyper-scale database services in the cloud and having direct, immediate impact on hundreds of thousands of customers? The Aurora PostgreSQL engine team is looking for a n exceptional Software Development Manager to revolutionize distributed, cloud-native databases. Amazon Aurora is a cloud-native relational database that combines the scalability and performance of the best NoSQL databases with full compatibility to PostgreSQL. As one of the fastest-growing services at the core of AWS and one of our largest managed database offerings, your engineering decisions will have widespread impact across AWS, Amazon, and beyond.

As Software Development Manager for the Aurora PostgreSQL engine team, you will own a core part of the database engine charter, responsible for Aurora PostgreSQL availability and data plane upgrades— making them seamless and low-downtime for our customers. You will have great impact if you hold high standards for engineering, can deep dive complex problems, and demonstrate a bias to solve cross-organizational challenges. We are never done innovating on behalf of our customers, and we continue to believe it is Day 1 for the Aurora business.

You will work in a highly collaborative, diverse environment that attracts talent and provides ample opportunities to grow and learn. You'll have the freedom to shape how the team works and what mechanisms and processes to establish to achieve your goals and deliver results. In this role, you provide technical direction and guidance to your team, coaching junior and intermediate engineers into established contributors through interesting, aspirational projects, while collaborating with senior engineers on large, complex features with high customer value.

You will work directly with customers to gather feedback and understand their use cases. Together with Aurora leadership, this will help you shape a vision for the team and align the roadmap and deliveries with product management. You will lead the delivery of new features—both customer-facing and those improving operational and technical efficiency—drawing on your knowledge of industry trends and engineering tradeoffs. You will be a thoughtful steward of existing systems, challenging assumptions and driving change when necessary to scale for growth.

This is a hands-on position that requires strong ownership. If you are technically knowledgeable, a good collaborator and communicator, and can lead with empathy for both customers and engineers, then this role is for you. We don't need you to be a database expert—you'll have the chance to learn on the go, and we value curiosity and craftsmanship over specific technical knowledge. You'll benefit daily from interacting with many talented people across AWS who will help you expand your management and technical skills.

Aurora is part of AWS Utility Computing (UC), which delivers product innovations ranging from foundational services like Amazon S3 and EC2 to continuously released features that set AWS apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you'll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, IoT, Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Key job responsibilities
- Grow and foster talent from Junior to Senior devs on a daily basis
- Establish mechanisms to efficiently lead the projects and help prioritize and balance the backlog
- Work with leadership, 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
- Work closely with engineers to deep dive into complex availability issues impacting customers, drive short and long term mitigations or features.
- Leverage GenAI/LLM tools such as Kiro Cli to speed up pace of innovation.

About the team
About the team
The Aurora PostgreSQL database engine team is a team of seasoned senior Developers and growing talent engineers, who own the complete lifecycle and service components of high availability of Aurora. They set the bar high for what we deliver to our most demanding customers.

About AWS
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Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. - 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience
- 7+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services 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
- 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming 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
- 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
- Leverage GenAI/LLM tools such as Kiro Cli to speed up pace of innovation.
- Experience building core engine of large scale data systems, or experienced with PostgreSQL engineering.

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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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually