Software Development Manager, AWS Distributed SQL

Amazon

Amazon

Software Engineering
Seattle, WA, USA
Posted on Jul 16, 2025

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, highest availability, and zero infrastructure management. Aurora DSQL provides active-active high availability, providing strong data consistency designed for 99.99% single-Region and 99.999% multi-Region availability. Aurora DSQL automatically manages and scales system resources, so you don't have to worry about maintenance downtime and provisioning, patching, or upgrading infrastructure.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Manager on the storage team, you will be responsible for leading a strong team of software engineers to build a high performance storage service / engine that is able to support all types of database workloads. You will be responsible for mentoring and coaching a high performing team of engineers with expertise in both low-level and distributed sysetms You be responsible for the full development life cycle and and operation of services. You will with the product team and other engineering teams to help build the roadmap and ensure the right thing is being built and delivered to customers.




A day in the life
You will take on a variety of tasks, balancing priorities to ensure the team's success:
- Create, prioritize, communicate, manage, and execute roadmaps, projects, and other commitments.
- Set clear, measurable goals for the team and regularly communicate status of development, quality, operations, and system performance.
- Lead the team to improve processes to deliver higher software development velocity and quality.
- Lead team operational strategy defining metrics, improvements and support.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement through coaching, mentoring, and feedback.



About the team
The Storage team for Aurora DSQL owns the storage service which manages reading and writing data to handle queries.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.