Come join the growing RDS Aurora Serverless Control Plane team, innovating on behalf of our customers on a service that: Reliably manages a large fleet of cloud native databases for our customers freeing them from traditional database operations Orchestrates and automates the complete lifecycle of a database cluster from creation to operation to scale-up, scale-out and fail-over Amazon Aurora Serverless Control Plane does all this and more.

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Aurora is a cloud-native relational database which combines the scalability and performance of the best NoSQL databases paired with full compatibility to the most popular relational open source databases - MySQL and PostgreSQL.

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Aurora can store petabytes of customer data and can handle peaks of millions of queries per second. As one of the fastest-growing services at the core of the AWS Cloud and also one of the largest managed database services in our business, your engineering decisions have widespread impact across AWS, Amazon, and beyond. Many of the world's fastest growing businesses depend on the scale and performance of Amazon Aurora and its control plane to support their mission-critical workloads.

We continue to believe it is Day 1 for the Amazon Aurora business. We are constantly improving and adding new capabilities to Amazon Aurora. Grow and foster talent from Junior to Senior devs on a daily basis Establish mechanisms to efficiently run the team and help prioritize and balance the backlog Review designs and help shape the teams design documents Manage and drive the operational ownership of the team As a Software Development Manager in this role, you will own a core part of the Control Plane charter, responsible for Aurora Serverless v2 and its wide array of enterprise features.

You will have the freedom to shape how the team works and what mechanisms and processes you want to establish to achieve the teams and organizations goals and deliver results to our customers. Provide technical direction and guidance to the team you are working with. Our engineers know that building a control plane to manage large scale cloud native databases is fun and challenging.

It is a system orchestrating a distributed storage engine operating with petabyte scale data sets, real-time node failure detection mechanisms, multi-datacenter and cross-continent replication.



You will coach junior and intermediate members of the team to become established contributors to our service by providing interesting and aspirational projects and mentoring them to successfully complete them. You will collaborate with senior engineers to work on large and complex features that have impact across different teams in the organization and high value for our customers.

Work directly with our customers to gather feedback and understand their use-cases. Together with the Aurora leadership this will help you to shape a vision for the team and define and align roadmap and deliveries with our product management. Lead the delivery of new features both customer-facing and improving operational and technical efficiency of the solution.

You will have an impact on our new offerings by taking advantage of your knowledge of industry trends and engineering tradeoffs and your ability to listen and understand the customer. If you are technically knowledgeable and a good collaborator and communicator that can lead with empathy for our customers and engineers, then this is for you. We don’t need you to be an expert in databases.

At the same time you will benefit from interacting with many of the talented people within AWS and they will help you improve and expand your management and technical skills on a daily basis. About AWS AWS values diverse experiences. Why AWS?

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Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious.

Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences.



We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. 3+ years of engineering team management 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 Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.

If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).

Amazon offers comprehensive perks including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D; insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. CAN, BC, Vancouver - 171,400.00 - 286,200.00 CAD annually #

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