This is an opportunity to shape a new database capability from its foundational architecture through launch, helping developers build semantic discovery, recommendations, and retrieval for generative AI applications directly on DynamoDB.
Key job responsibilities
Lead and grow an engineering team building vector, full-text, and hybrid search; develop engineers with depth in search algorithms, database internals, and distributed execution.
Own the technical roadmap, sequencing algorithm evaluation, integration, performance qualification, and customer delivery into achievable milestones.
Guide architecture for vector and text indexes, including choices among retrieval algorithms, memory and disk layouts, compression, and update strategies.
Lead delivery of query planning and execution across partitions, including filter placement, candidate selection, ranking, and combining results.
Establish evaluation practices that reveal how recall, relevance, latency, and cost change with dataset size, filter selectivity, write rate, and workload skew.
Partner with storage and database teams to support search under continuous data changes, infrastructure failures, and growing workloads.
Make deliberate scope and staffing decisions, resolve dependencies, and ensure testing and rollout plans develop alongside implementation.
Own production readiness and team health, including observability, deployment safety, incident learning, and sustainable on-call practices.
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
Experience partnering with product or program management teams
3+ years of engineering team management experience
7+ years of engineering experience
Experience hiring, developing, and managing high-performing technical teams
Experience leading architecture and delivery of distributed databases, storage systems, replication, or transaction infrastructure.
Experience delivering substantial changes across multiple teams while maintaining production reliability.
Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
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USA, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
