Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Technology

SoftwareDevelopmentManager,DistributedSQL(DSQL)ControlPlane

$184–250k Seattle, Washington, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Software Development Manager, Distributed SQL (DSQL) Control Plane at Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.. Skills: Distributed SQL, Control Plane, Infrastructure. Lead, hire, mentor, and grow team. Foster culture of ownership”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years engineering team management, 7+ years engineering experience, 8+ years leading web services development, 3+ years Software Engineer experience, 1+ years technical leadership, 1+ years developing distributed software systems, 1+ years developing service-oriented architecture, 1+ years developing distributed programming, Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent, Knowledge of engineering practices, Experience partnering with product teams

Nice to Have

Experience communicating with users, Experience communicating with technical teams, Experience communicating with senior leadership, Experience recruiting Software Engineers, Experience hiring Software Engineers, Experience mentoring Software Engineers, Experience coaching Software Engineers, Experience managing Software Engineers

What You'll Do.

Foster culture of ownership

Foster culture of operational excellence

Foster culture of continuous improvement

Coordinate across DSQL organization

Unblock teams in DSQL organization

Deliver customer-facing outcomes

Own region build infrastructure

Ensure new regions stand up reliably

Ensure new regions stand up efficiently

Drive gameday strategy

Execute gameday strategy

Build muscle memory for operational readiness

Own AWS API surface area

Own AWS SDK surface area

Ensure APIs are well-designed

Ensure APIs are consistent with AWS standards

Lead cellular architecture efforts

Design isolation boundaries

Evolve isolation boundaries

Own AWS service integrations

Build monitoring tooling

Evolve monitoring tooling

Build observability tooling

Evolve observability tooling

Rethink code to production path

Re-architect code to production path

Identify bottlenecks in build pipelines

Remove bottlenecks in build pipelines

Identify bottlenecks in test pipelines

Remove bottlenecks in test pipelines

Identify bottlenecks in deployment pipelines

Remove bottlenecks in deployment pipelines

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with every team in DSQL; Cross-team relationships; Drive organizational alignment

Process & Methodology

Software development lifecycle

Full Job Description

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 your 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. Your team's work will directly impact the reliability, scalability, and operational posture of this service. Key job responsibilities - 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 org - 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, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, 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-

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