Sr. Software Development Manager, Amazon RDS & Oracle Database@AWS

Hundreds of thousands of customers trust AWS to run their most demanding applications. Oracle offers a world-class commercial database, and its the trusted backbone for Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions and complex global systems for advanced transaction processing. Our vision is to make AWS the best cloud service for enterprise customers to run Oracle database applications. As Sr. SDM, you will lead the path to realize this vision, and own end-to-end engineering for Amazon RDS for Oracle and Oracle Database@AWS.

Amazon RDS for Oracle is optimized for total cost of ownership, and helps enterprise engineering teams focus on innovation by eliminating time-consuming database administration tasks such as provisioning for high availability, monitoring, software patching, backups, scaling, and disaster recovery. Oracle AI Database@AWS enables customers to migrate their on-premises Exadata infrastructure to AWS, run Oracle Exadata infrastructure and Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless inside AWS data centers, establish low-latency connectivity from applications running on AWS, and integrate with AWS services such as Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring and AWS Key Management Service for database encryption.

Key job responsibilities

• As Sr. SDM for Amazon RDS for Oracle and Oracle Database@AWS, you will
• Define and drive the technical roadmap, working backwards from customer problems to develop innovations that make AWS the leading cloud service to run Oracle database workloads
• Own operational health and metrics — availability, security, durability, reliability, and latency, establishing mechanisms for continuous improvement.
• Build partnerships with engineering teams across AWS and Oracle, own technical decisions that balance innovation with reliability and operational efficiency.
• Champion AI-first development practices,, build and mentor multiple high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning, customer obsession, and operational excellence.
• Recruit and develop top talent, creating clear growth paths and coaching engineering managers and engineers across multiple levels.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience
• 5+ years of engineering team management experience
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams
• Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
• Experience in building scalable systems based on web services
• Experience establishing metrics for measurement of engineering and operational excellence

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building and/or operating large scale business-critical database applications

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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, Redmond - 220,100.00 - 297,700.00 USD annually