Software Development Manager, Distributed SQL; DSQL Control Plane

Overview

This is an important leadership position in the Aurora DSQL organization. We’re looking for an experienced Software Development Manager to lead a team of 8–10 SDEs building and operating foundational infrastructure that touches every aspect of the DSQL service. Because the team’s scope spans region builds, APIs, deployments, monitoring, and service integrations, you will partner with every team in DSQL—engine, control plane, data plane, and beyond—to deliver results for our customers.

Success in this role requires someone who can build strong cross‑team relationships, drive alignment across organizational boundaries, and deliver cohesive outcomes from many moving parts. Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database designed for high availability and strong consistency across multiple AWS Regions, and your team’s work will directly impact its reliability, scalability, and operational posture.

• Lead, hire, mentor, and grow a team of 8–10 SDEs, fostering a culture of ownership, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Work across every team in the DSQL organization to coordinate, unblock, and deliver customer‑facing outcomes that no single team could achieve alone.
• Own region build infrastructure—ensuring new regions can be stood up reliably and efficiently.
• Drive gameday strategy and execution, building muscle memory for operational readiness across the team and organization.
• Own AWS API and SDK surface area for DSQL, ensuring APIs are well‑designed, consistent with AWS standards, and provide a great developer experience.
• Lead cellular architecture efforts, designing and evolving the isolation boundaries that underpin DSQL’s availability story.
• Own AWS service integrations (IAM, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, etc.), ensuring DSQL is a first‑class citizen in the AWS ecosystem.
• Build and evolve monitoring and observability tooling that gives the team deep insight into service health.
• Rethink and re‑architect the path from code to production—identify and remove bottlenecks in build, test, and deployment pipelines to dramatically reduce friction and cycle time.

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of engineering experience.
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi‑tier web services.
• 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related role.
• 1+ year of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle.
• Experience developing large‑scale, multi‑tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++.
• Experience developing large‑scale, multi‑tiered distributed software systems using service‑oriented architecture.
• Experience developing large‑scale, multi‑tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming.
• 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 communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.
• Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching, and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective product software engineers.

Amazon offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, optional supplemental life plans, Employee Assistance Program, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage. We also provide 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and additional perks aligned with the position and location.

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