Amazon Software Development Manager RDS Open Source Database Engines 

Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver 

311994316

Key job responsibilities
To Succeed In This Role, You Will Be
A hiring genius – our business is growing, fast. With your help, we will scale the engineering organization to meet the demands of our customers. You may find yourself wandering the streets wearing a “hiring” sandwich-board. More likely, you will find yourself traveling the world seeking top tech talent from every corner of the globe. You will find yourself organizing tech talks and spreading the word that opportunity is here to stay.
A technical wizard – reliability is core to our brand. Our code is deployed to millions of servers around the world. Our services are built to survive large-scale hardware and software failures. Our customers quite literally bet their businesses on our technology. They expect the best, and we aim to deliver nothing less. You will find yourself pushing the envelope on designing systems of scale, to the extreme. You will find yourself working amongst world’s leading industry experts on game-changing technology. You will find yourself humbled every day by what you learn.
A ambassador extraordinaire – trust is core to our brand. RDS customers love to speak with us about: vision/roadmap, feature requests, support concerns, and generally all things AWS. Our engineering leaders meet regularly with customers, in all their various shapes and sizes. You will find yourself acting as consultant to the technical leadership of multiple fortune 500 companies. You will find yourself on stage presenting our latest innovations at multiple conferences per year. You will establish yourself as a public-facing ambassador for the technology we create.

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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