Software Development Manager, AWS DynamoDB

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (Iot) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Want to shape the future of a NoSQL database service that supports mission-critical workloads operating at more than 100 million requests per second Lets 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 worlds 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 improve the discoverability safety and efficiency of DynamoDB.

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. They 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!

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• 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
• 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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Required Experience :

Manager

Key Skills

Feed,Jsf,Advocacy,Java,Automobile

Employment Type : Full-Time

Department / Functional Area : Software Development

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1