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Software Development Manager, RDS Aurora Control Plane

Toronto, Ontario, Canada💼 Full-time💰 $171,400–$286,200🗓 2026-08-19 → 2026-09-27

Core

Lead the engineering team building the Amazon Aurora control plane, a cloud-native database service that manages large fleets of databases, ensures high availability, and automates the database lifecycle.

Role type

Senior engineering manager (distributed systems)

Builds

Amazon Aurora control plane (database orchestration, failover, and lifecycle management)

Domain

Cloud-native databases, distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Engineering team management, distributed systems knowledge, software development lifecycle expertise, product partnership, system architecture

Preferred skills

Technical recruiting and mentoring, complex system design, managing high-caliber software engineering teams

Technologies

Amazon Aurora, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Responsibilities

Collaborate with engineers to solve large-scale distributed systems problems, influence end-to-end service design and delivery, coach and mentor diverse groups of engineers, collaborate across teams and with senior leadership, nurture an accountable and high-performing engineering team

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities

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