DESCRIPTION
Come and change the way our customers interact with relational database solutions at scale
The Amazon RDS and Aurora is one of the largest AWS businesses, providing super-simple provisioning and management for relational databases in the cloud. Customers can set up a new database with just a few clicks, and complex administrative tasks like scaling, fail-over, and monitoring are all handled in an automated fashion by our control systems.
As a software developer manager for the team, you will get to lead a team that designs, develops and deploys quality solutions that help Aurora improve on the developer experience. We strive to build generic, resilient components that both maximize business impact and ensure uninterrupted customer experiences.
The Amazon RDS and Aurora is a part of AWS Utility Computing (UC) which provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS's services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you'll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS. Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
Key job responsibilities
The role encompasses people, product and project management together with technical leadership. As a manager within the team, you will have opportunities to set the teams' roadmap, and to work closely with support teams, senior engineers and other managers within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) organization.
Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. Although the immediate team is located in the Dublin offices, we interact with teams across many other locations such as Seattle, Vancouver and Toronto. We try to keep core availability hours from 10 am to 4 pm and provide flexibility for people to structure their working hours around them.
On-Call Responsibilities
The position involves manager on-call responsibilities. We don't like getting paged, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant and that our alarms are well calibrated. When we do get paged, we work together to first mitigate and then resolve the root cause so we don't get paged for the same issue twice.
Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
* 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 in engineering team management
* Experience in engineering
* Experience in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services
* Experience partnering with product and 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
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