Software Development Manager, AWS DynamoDB Global Tables

Job summary

DESCRIPTION Amazon DynamoDB powers many of the world's fastest-growing businesses — Lyft, Airbnb, Redfin — as well as enterprises like Samsung, Toyota, and Capital One. It also powers multiple high-traffic Amazon properties including Alexa, Amazon.com, and all Amazon fulfillment centers.

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Qualifications

• 1+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of engineering experience
• 3+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++ experience
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture experience
• PREFERRED
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect
• describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their
• and location.
• Amazon also offers comprehensive

Responsibilities

• As an SDM on Global Tables, you will lead a team of SDEs building distributed systems that operate at the intersection of consistency, availability, and low-latency replication across AWS regions.
• Own both the people and technical direction for your team — balancing customer-facing feature delivery, operational excellence, and long-term architectural investments
• Partner with Principal Engineers, peer SDMs, and Product Managers to define customer experience, drive design reviews, and resolve cross-team dependencies across DynamoDB
• Drive operational excellence for mission-critical services processing millions of requests per second — owning production readiness, incident reduction, and on-call health
• Hire, mentor, and grow engineers — building tech leads, guiding career development, and fostering an inclusive team culture
• Make pragmatic tradeoffs between delivery velocity, system reliability, and technical debt.
• To succeed in this 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.
• You will exercise your intellectual curiosity, hire and lead motivated teams of sharp individuals.
• About the team
• AWS values diverse experiences.
• Even if you do not meet all of the preferred

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