Software Development Manager, AWS DynamoDB Global Tables

Amazon DynamoDB powers many of the world's fastest-growing businesses — Lyft, Airbnb, Redfin — as well as enterprises like Samsung, Toyota, and Capital One. It also powers multiple high-traffic Amazon properties including Alexa, Amazon.com, and all Amazon fulfillment centers. As one of the largest distributed database systems in the world, we believe it is always Day 1 and are constantly improving and adding new capabilities.

DynamoDB Global Tables enables customers to replicate their tables across multiple AWS regions, providing low-latency reads and writes globally with built-in high availability and disaster recovery. We recently launched Multi-Region Strong Consistency (GT-MRSC) — offering zero-RPO, globally linearizable replication without a primary region — alongside our established eventually-consistent Global Tables product. Our team owns the full stack: the core replication engine, control plane workflows, the strongly-consistent data plane, and integration with multi-region journaling infrastructure. We operate at massive scale — hundreds of thousands of active Global Tables across all commercial AWS regions.

We are looking for a deeply technical and passionate software development leader to drive this next chapter. As an SDM on Global Tables, you will lead a team of SDEs building distributed systems that operate at the intersection of consistency, availability, and low-latency replication across AWS regions.

Key job responsibilities

• 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.

About the team
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Basic Qualifications

- 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

Preferred Qualifications

- 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

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

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. 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 (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually