Software Development Manager - Amazon Redshift

We are searching for a Software Development Manager with passion for building large-scale database systems optimized for efficient query processing and easy to use. If you are motivated by working in fast-paced environment, have full ownership of your work, and build a team of excellent engineers – this role is for you!

This position of the Software Development Manager for Amazon Redshift represents an unusual opportunity to shape the technology and future of a rapidly evolving industry and business.

Utility Computing (UC)

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS. Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Key job responsibilities

As a Software Development Manager at Amazon Redshift, you will :

• Take overall responsibility for growing and leading a database software development team responsible for rethinking the assumptions behind how traditional database services were built and thinking how to build database services best suited for the cloud.
• Lead the design, implementation, testing and deployment of these database services and prioritize the backlog.
• Mentor a team of talented and experienced software engineers, complete hands-on technical work and provide leadership on complex technical issues, design tradeoffs, and feature and schedule prioritization.
• Shape a culture of innovation and serve your team of engineers so that they can leverage their full potential and grow.
• Work with senior executives to develop business targets and resource requirements, influence our technical and business strategy.
• You will be successful in this role, if you bring deep technical and software expertise, and have strong business acumen and judgment. You have the ability to define visionary, ground breaking products and the ability to hire and lead a team. Finally, you should have the desire to have an industry wide impact and ability to work within a fast moving, startup environment in a large company to rapidly deliver services that have a broad business impact.

A day in the life

Joining the Amazon Redshift team gives you the opportunity to :

About the team

Our cloud data warehouse Amazon Redshift manages all the work needed to set up, operate, and scale a data warehouse, from provisioning capacity and installing software to monitoring and backing up the cluster, to applying patches and upgrades. With Redshift Spectrum, our customers can easily query data from Amazon S3, thereby scaling their warehouse out to Exabytes and allowing them to integrate data in all kinds of file formats from their data lake into their analytics.

About AWS

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Work / Life Balance

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