Software Development Manager Compute & Services

You should come work with the Aurora team to help build a service that:

Reliably manages a large fleet of 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-out and fail-over
Has the unique opportunity to integrate closely with our engine and storage layers to build an end-to-end solution that is easy-to-use and at the same time full-fills the demanding requirements of an enterprise-grade solution

Amazon Aurora control plane does all this and more. Amazon Aurora is a cloud-native relational database which combines the scalability and performance of the best No

SQL 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 the the Aurora Availability charter from the Control Plane perspective. 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.

Our 3-AZ availability promise to our customers is one of the most important aspect of our service. We also report our SLA monthly internally all the way up to the Amazon Board. Customers expect a high bar for all deliverables in this area. So this role gives you the opportunity to have a significant 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 database engine and storage teams as well as customers to gather feedback and understand their use-cases and failure scenarios. 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 Aurora availability improvements both customer-facing as well as improving operational and technical efficiency of our product.

This will require broad understanding of distributed systems and deep knowledge of monitoring, observability and database recovery in error situations. 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…