Software Development Manager, Aurora Control Plane

Role Overview

Join the expanding RDS Aurora Serverless Control Plane team to innovate cloud-native database management solutions. This service expertly manages a vast fleet of databases, automates lifecycle operations from creation to scaling and failover, and ensures exceptional availability for high-demand workloads.

About Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora is a scalable cloud-native relational database that combines NoSQL-like performance with compatibility for MySQL and PostgreSQL. Supporting petabytes of data and millions of queries per second, it is among AWS's fastest-growing and largest managed database services globally.

Position Responsibilities

• Lead a core part of the Control Plane focused on Aurora Serverless v2 and enterprise features.
• Provide technical guidance and direction for your team, coaching junior and mid-level engineers through meaningful projects.
• Collaborate with senior engineers on complex features impacting multiple teams and delivering high value to customers.
• Engage directly with customers to gather feedback and understand use-cases to shape the team vision and product roadmap.
• Drive delivery of new customer-facing features and improvements to operational and technical efficiency.
• Foster a culture of ownership, challenge assumptions, and steer system changes to ensure scalability.
• Take part in manager on-call responsibilities quarterly to ensure system fault tolerance and rapid incident resolution.
• Manage team operations, prioritize backlog, work closely with product management, and communicate updates to leadership.

Team Environment

The team emphasizes customer developer experience and collaborates extensively across Aurora Serverless, Storage, and Platform groups.

Diversity and Inclusion

AWS values diverse backgrounds and encourages applications from candidates with non-traditional career paths or emerging careers.

Why AWS?

AWS is the most comprehensive and widely adopted cloud platform, continually innovating to enable customers ranging from startups to Global 500 companies.

Company Culture

AWS promotes curiosity, inclusivity, mentorship, career growth, and work-life harmony, fostering an environment where employees feel supported personally and professionally.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of the full software/hardware/network development lifecycle including best engineering practices.
• Proven experience managing engineering teams.
• Background in software engineering and leadership of multi-tier web services development.
• Collaboration with product and program management teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Effective communication with users, cross-functional teams, and leadership to gather requirements and define product strategy.
• Experience in recruiting, mentoring, and coaching engineers to enhance team capabilities.

Additional Information

This is a hands-on leadership role requiring technical proficiency, empathy, and effective collaboration. Prior database expertise is not mandatory; curiosity and craftsmanship are highly valued. The team is part of AWS Utility Computing, innovating foundational cloud services.

The role entails people management with scope to define processes and mechanisms aligning with organizational goals. Manager on-call duties occur once every three months alongside work to promote system reliability.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. Accommodation requests for applicants with disabilities are supported throughout the recruitment process.