Amazon DynamoDB powers many of the world's fastest-growing businesses as well as enterprises like Samsung, Toyota, and Capital One. It also powers multiple high-traffic Amazon properties including Alexa, Amazon.com, and all Amazon fulfillment centers. As one of the largest distributed database systems in the world, we believe it is always Day 1 and are constantly improving and adding new capabilities. DynamoDB Global Tables enables customers to replicate their tables across multiple AWS regions, providing low-latency reads and writes globally with built-in high availability and disaster recovery. We operate at massive scale hundreds of thousands of active Global Tables across all commercial AWS regions.

We are looking for a deeply technical and passionate software development leader to drive this next chapter. As an SDM on Global Tables, you will lead a team of SDEs building distributed systems that operate at the intersection of consistency, availability, and low-latency replication across AWS regions.

Key job responsibilities:

• Own both the people and technical direction for your team balancing customer-facing feature delivery, operational excellence, and long-term architectural investments
• Partner with Principal Engineers, peer SDMs, and Product Managers to define customer experience, drive design reviews, and resolve cross-team dependencies across DynamoDB
• Drive operational excellence for mission-critical services processing millions of requests per second owning production readiness, incident reduction, and on-call health
• Hire, mentor, and grow engineers building tech leads, guiding career development, and fostering an inclusive team culture
• Make pragmatic tradeoffs between delivery velocity, system reliability, and technical debt.

To succeed in this role, you must be passionate about solving deep technical challenges and being a great people manager. You must care deeply about system availability and reliability, and understand what it means to own a mission-critical service.

About the team:

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying. Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship & Career Growth We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture.