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.

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Engine team is looking for experienced engineering leader in relational databases and/or large scale storage system technologies, who are excited about building large scale database systems that run across thousands of servers across multiple datacenters worldwide. You will lead teams that design and deliver services for extensive scalability and manageability of AWS Aurora. You will participate in product direction and roadmap planning, project execution scheduling, and hiring engineers to develop cutting-edge database platform services. This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast-growing service and help shape the technology, product and the business direction. A successful candidate will bring deep technical and leadership expertise, and ability to work within a fast-paced startup culture in a large company to deliver solid code that has a broad business impact.

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! For more information about Aurora, please visit http://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora.

Key job responsibilities
- Grow and foster talent from Junior to Senior devs on a daily basis
- Establish mechanisms to efficiently run the team and help prioritize and balance the backlog
- Work with PM and other engineering teams on roadmap strategy and prioritization
- Share updates to the leadership team on the teams deliverables
- Review designs and help shape the teams design documents
- Manage and drive the operational ownership of the team