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# Software Development Manager, AWS DynamoDB Global Tables

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Salary:** $184,900.0 - $250,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Code Review, Amazon DynamoDB, Software Product Management, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Engineering, Software Systems, System Availability, Distributed Programming, Reliability of Systems, Technical Debt, Information Technology, Build Process, Software Coding, Software Version Control
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/F9D405070395461EAB3E2BC69823C582/job/

## About the Role

* 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, * 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
 * Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
 * 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 and program management teams
 * 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience

## Description

* 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.


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