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Want to shape the future of a NoSQL database service that supports mission-critical workloads operating at more than 100 million requests per second? Let’s take its speed and efficiency to the next level!
Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value and document database that delivers single-digit-millisecond performance at any scale. As a fast-growing service at the core of the AWS Cloud, our business and engineering decisions have widespread impact across AWS, Amazon, and beyond. 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 depend on the scale and performance of DynamoDB to support their mission-critical workloads.
We are looking for an engineering leader eager to own a new initiative on the DynamoDB team.
As a software development manager on the DynamoDB team, you will lead a team of passionate engineers to build reliable and highly scalable distributed systems. This is a good opportunity to pave the path for a new generation of cloud database services, grow as a technology leader, and work with some really smart people. To succeed in the role, you must be passionate about both 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 that handles hundreds of millions of requests per second, with sub-millisecond latencies and eight 9s of availability. You must be great fun to work with. Our company credo is “Work hard. Have fun. Make history”. The right candidate will be smart, ambitious, love what they do and instinctively know how to make work fun. Building, motivating and mentoring a world-class systems & software engineering team is the most important part of this role. You should have a proven track record in recruiting and retaining top talent and excel in day-to-day people and performance management tasks.
You must have a strong Agile product management and delivery experience. The successful candidate will create and implement product roadmaps for the team using Agile methodologies. This will include helping innovate and invent new value-add services layered on top of our existing services. You will need excellent technical project management skills to deliver product roadmap items as well as other cross-team projects. You will set the vision of how to evolve DynamoDB going forward.
You must have a strong operational experience, with a track record of operating highly available fault tolerant systems. The right candidate will want to measure everything and be very data driven. He/she will excel at using metrics, monitoring and alarming to measure and improve the operational processes and performance of their team. The candidate must be comfortable operating in a fast moving, dynamic environment.
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!
DynamoDB is one of the largest NoSQL databases on the planet, and the service requires an engineering team that can solve the unique challenges that come with its scale. DynamoDB is a key-value and document database that delivers single-digit-millisecond performance at any scale. As a fast-growing service at the core of the AWS Cloud, our business and engineering decisions have widespread impact across AWS, Amazon, and beyond. 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 depend on the scale and performance of DynamoDB to support their mission-critical workloads.
As a software development manager on the DynamoDB team, you will lead a team of passionate engineers to build reliable, highly scalable distributed systems. This is a good opportunity to pave the path for a new generation of cloud database services, grow as a technology leader, and work with some really smart people. You need to not only be a top software development leader with a good track record of delivering, but also passionate about managing people.
If you want to test your limits and tackle technical challenges at a scale that you won’t see anywhere else, join our team.
Inclusive team culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have 10 employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in more than 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Work/life balance
Our team puts a high value on work/life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to all parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to lifelong happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.
Mentorship and career growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough-but-kind code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help you and your team members develop into better-rounded engineers and enable you to take on more complex tasks in the future.
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
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A proven track record of leading a team to successfully deliver scalable, fault-tolerant systems
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The ability to drive major project efforts across teams and within a team
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A solid understanding of distributed systems
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Two or more years of experience writing code in one or more of the following: Java, C#, and C++ Experience with mission-critical, 24×7 systems
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
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A Master of Science degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Information Systems, or a related field
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Demonstrated success working across organizational boundaries, bringing together people with diverse perspectives and experience to find solutions
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Experience driving complex projects from start to finish
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Communication, sharp analytical abilities, and proven design skills
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The demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment
