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Do you want to know how Amazon DynamoDB powers many of the world’s fastest growing businesses such as Lyft, Airbnb, and Redfin as well as enterprises such as Samsung, Toyota, and Capital One? Amazon DynamoDB also powers multiple high-traffic Amazon properties and systems including Alexa, Amazon.com sites, and all Amazon fulfillment centers. For example, over the course of the 66-hour Prime Day 2020, these sources made 16.4 trillion calls to the DynamoDB API, peaking at 80.1 million requests per second.

As one of the largest distributed database systems in the world, we believe it is always Day 1 at the Amazon DynamoDB business and are constantly improving and adding new capabilities to Amazon DynamoDB. We are looking for a deeply technical and passionate software development leader to push Amazon DynamoDB even further.

As a Software Development Manager in Amazon DynamoDB, you are constantly challenged to think of unique and innovative solutions. The quality bar is high. You will work on challenging distributed database engineering problems at a massive scale and on multiple dimensions. You will exercise your intellectual curiosity, hire/lead motivated teams of sharp individuals, and collaborate with Sr. principal and VP/distinguished engineers in AWS.

To succeed in the role, you must be passionate about solving deep technical challenges and being a great people manager. You must care deeply about system availability and reliability, and understand what it means to own a mission-critical service.

Our team is dedicated to delivering best in class data protection and data integration capabilities to DynamoDB customers. We provide customers easy to use features to move data in and out of DynamoDB such as Export, Import, Zero ETL, Global Tables, to help them with data migration, data protection and data integration with first party AWS services. You will get a chance to redefine these components to allow greater efficiencies, higher availability and durability. You and your team will sit at the unique crossroads where low-level storage systems and high-scale distributed systems intersect.

If you want to test your limits, build a world-class team, and tackle challenges at a scale and level of impact rarely seen, join us.

Key job responsibilities

You will be responsible for people (hiring, inspiring, growing), a product charter (vision, goals, architecture and design), project work (working backwards, requirements, estimates, planning, execution, safe and high quality rollout) and operations.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 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 experience

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy

• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $148,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.