Software Development Manager, Aurora PostgreSQL; AWS

Software Development Manager, Aurora PostgreSQL

Job  | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Are you interested in building hyper-scale database services in the cloud? Do you want to revolutionize the way databases are built for the cloud? Do you want to have direct and immediate impact on hundreds of thousands of users who use AWS database services?

Amazon Aurora is an exciting new area of innovation for AWS, and the Postgres-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora is built on one of the most active code bases in the open source community. The Postgres-compatible version of Amazon Aurora is a relational database which offers enterprise-class performance, availability, and durability to our customers, along with the management benefits of RDS. We are one of the fastest growing businesses within Amazon Web Services, with teams in Seattle, Toronto, Dublin, and India.

We have challenging problems to solve in distributed systems, query optimization, languages, concurrency, database internals, caching and performance engineering. We intend to be the world's best and fastest database, built by an excellent team, all while having fun – come join us on the journey!

We are looking for experienced, passionate, and curious engineering leaders to innovate with us on behalf of our customers. To be successful in this role you should possess solid analytical, design, and problem-diagnosis skills. Expertise with query processing and optimization and high‑performance systems is a plus. You will lead multiple teams in designing, implementing, and owning high‑ and low‑level system components to make Aurora Database highly available, scalable, reliable, and fast.

You should be comfortable hiring and building your team, mentoring junior engineers, and harmonizing operational responsibilities with innovation. The ability to translate high‑level technical requirements into executable project plans is essential.

• Huge impact:
  Work on a service that will be used directly and indirectly by millions of customers.
• Gratification:
  You will know you are solving problems most software developers don’t yet know exist.
• Critical:
  Databases are cornerstones to many of our customers’ applications.
• Ownership:
  You will quickly become responsible for key components of the service.
• Learn:
  Opportunity to learn about challenges of large‑scale fault‑tolerant systems in practice.
• Innovate:
  We learn from our customers and invent every day.
• Make history: AWS is the leader in a current industry‑wide revolution.
• Have fun:
  Surround yourself with engineers who like to solve complex problems while working in a fun environment.

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of engineering 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 communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching, and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective product software engineers

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

The base salary range for this position is USD  –  annually (USA, WA, Redmond). Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

Posted: February 2, 2026 (Updated about 1 hour ago)