The AWS Relational Database Service is a fast growing AWS business, providing automated relational database management in the cloud. Customers can set up a new database with just a few clicks, and complex administrative tasks like scaling, fail-over, and monitoring are all automatically handled by our control systems.
Amazon RDS Open Source is an exciting area of innovation for AWS. We are helping customers have performance, availability and durability, with open source databases, with managed benefits of RDS.
The systems we build manage huge numbers of databases, and our service is growing fast, requiring constant innovations in our systems in order to handle the next order of magnitude in service scale.
We are looking for a high-growth engineering leader, ready to take on empires (and win!).

Key job responsibilities
To Succeed In This Role, You Will Be
A hiring genius – our business is growing, fast. With your help, we will scale the engineering organization to meet the demands of our customers. You may find yourself wandering the streets wearing a “hiring” sandwich-board. More likely, you will find yourself traveling the world seeking top tech talent from every corner of the globe. You will find yourself organizing tech talks and spreading the word that opportunity is here to stay.
A technical wizard – reliability is core to our brand. Our code is deployed to millions of servers around the world. Our services are built to survive large-scale hardware and software failures. Our customers quite literally bet their businesses on our technology. They expect the best, and we aim to deliver nothing less. You will find yourself pushing the envelope on designing systems of scale. You will find yourself working amongst world’s leading industry experts on game-changing technology. You will find yourself humbled every day by what you learn.
A ambassador extraordinaire – trust is core to our brand. RDS customers love to speak with us about: vision/roadmap, feature requests, support concerns, and generally all things AWS. Our engineering leaders meet regularly with internal and external customers, in all their various shapes and sizes.