Software Development Manager, Dynamodb Storage

Do you want to know how Amazon DynamoDB powers many of the world's fastest growing businesses such as Lyft, Airbnb, and Redfin as well as enterprises such as Samsung, Toyota, and Capital One? Amazon DynamoDB also powers multiple high-traffic Amazon properties and systems including Alexa, Amazon.com sites, and all Amazon fulfillment centers. For example, over the course of the 66-hour Prime Day 2020, these sources made 16.4 trillion calls to the DynamoDB API, peaking at 80.1 million requests per second.
As one of the largest distributed database systems in the world, we believe it is always Day 1 at the Amazon DynamoDB business and are constantly improving and adding new capabilities to Amazon DynamoDB. We are looking for a deeply technical and passionate Software Development leader to push Amazon DynamoDB even further.
As a Software Development Manager in Amazon DynamoDB, you are constantly challenged to think of unique and innovative solutions. The quality bar is high. You will work on challenging distributed database engineering problems at a massive scale and on multiple dimensions. You will exercise your intellectual curiosity, hire/lead motivated teams of sharp individuals, and collaborate with Sr. principal and VP/distinguished engineers in AWS.
To succeed in the 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 be responsible for building core storage components of Amazon DynamoDB. You will get a chance to redefine these components to allow greater efficiencies, higher availability and durability. You and your team will sit at the unique crossroads where low-level storage systems and high-scale distributed systems intersect.
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.
Key job responsibilities
You will be responsible for people (hiring, inspiring, growing), a product charter (vision, goals, architecture and design), project work (working backwards, requirements, estimates, planning, execution, safe and high quality rollout) and operations.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA