Senior Software Development Manager, DynamoDB

About the role

The DynamoDB team’s mission is to serve the world’s most critical and demanding applications. DynamoDB is a NoSQL database that delivers consistent performance at any scale. Many of the world's fastest growing businesses such as Disney+, Snap, and Zoom depend on the scale and performance of DynamoDB to support some of the world’s most demanding applications. Hundreds of thousands of AWS customers choose DynamoDB for mobile, web, gaming, ad tech, IoT, and other applications that need low-latency data access at any scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a multi-team organization of senior engineers and engineering managers focused on DynamoDB indexing systems, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and customer obsession.
• Define and execute a 1–3 year technical roadmap for DynamoDB indexing, balancing near-term customer needs with long-term architectural investments.
• Drive architectural decisions for large-scale distributed indexing systems, including index build pipelines, consistency models, and cross-region index replication.
• Partner with product and business stakeholders to translate customer requirements into engineering priorities, ensuring the team delivers features that have measurable customer impact.
• Establish operational excellence standards for the indexing platform, including availability, latency, and durability targets, and lead the team in meeting and exceeding those targets.
• Recruit, develop, and retain top engineering talent; build a diverse, high-performing organization with a strong pipeline of future leaders.
• Collaborate across DynamoDB and AWS with peer SDMs and Directors to align on shared infrastructure, resolve cross-team dependencies, and contribute to org-wide engineering strategy.
• Represent the Indexing organization in senior leadership reviews, communicating progress, risks, and strategic direction with clarity and confidence.

Requirements

10+ years of engineering experience
5+ years of engineering team management experience
10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
Experience partnering with product or program management teams
Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment

Qualifications

Experience partnering with product and program management teams
Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications

Skills

Experience with distributed systems engineering
Experience with customer experience design

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Pay

Base salary range: $220,100.00 - $297,700.00 USD annually

Schedule

Full-time