Drimva

Amazon

Sr. Software Development Manager, Relational Database Services

$220K–$298K

Austin, TX · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026

Experience
10+ years of engineering experience; 5+ years of engineering team management experience; 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience.

About the job

Leads engineering teams and sets strategy for RDS systems that patch, upgrade, and manage software across customer database fleets.

What you'll do

  • Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for RDS patching, upgrades, and software lifecycle management.
  • Build and lead teams delivering patching and upgrade orchestration, safety, and automation systems.
  • Improve maintenance safety through reduced downtime, automated validation and rollback, and faster fleet-wide remediation.

What they ask for

  • 10+ years of engineering experience
  • 5+ years of engineering team management experience
  • 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
  • Experience partnering with product or program management teams and managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment

Nice to have

  • Experience partnering with product and program management teams
  • Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications

Pay

220,100.00 - 297,700.00 USD annually (base salary)

Tools

AWS, RDS

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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)