Sr. Software Development Manager, Relational Database Services

Amazon is hiring a Sr. Software Development Manager, Relational Database Services in Dublin, Ireland. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Works on AI ●●●○ is how Level rates this role: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
Tools and skills the posting cites include AWS, Cloudformation and agentic AI.
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Lead engineering teams to incorporate agentic AI into the RDS console and internal operations tooling for automated workflows.

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The console is where most customers meet Amazon RDS, and where AWS operators keep the service healthy every hour of every day. We are looking for a Senior Software Development Manager in Dublin to own the end-to-end customer experience including AWS Console, and CloudFormation for RDS. This role spans both the customer-facing console and the internal operations console used to run the service. This leader will define how customers discover, configure, and manage their databases, and how AWS engineers operate one of the largest managed database fleets in the world.

This is a broad, high-impact charter. You will lead multiple teams responsible for the RDS customer experience and the next-generation internal operations console, and you will own how agentic AI is incorporated into both. That means reimagining the console from a set of forms and dashboards into an intelligent, assistive experience: one that guides customers to the right decisions, surfaces the right operational context to engineers, and takes safe, well-scoped actions on their behalf. You will set the product and technical vision, deliver a modern operator console to replace legacy tooling, and raise the bar on usability, safety, and speed across the RDS console surface.

The ideal candidate pairs strong product and customer-experience instincts with deep engineering judgment, and is excited to lead at the frontier of applying agentic AI to real operational and customer workflows. You build teams that obsess over the people using their software, whether that is a customer launching their first database or an operator responding to a live event.

Key job responsibilities
- Own the vision, strategy, and delivery for the RDS AWS Console experience, covering both the customer console and the internal operations console.
- Lead the incorporation of agentic AI into the console: assistive guidance, contextual insights, and safe, scoped automated actions for customers and operators.
- Build and deliver the next-generation internal operations console, modernizing and replacing legacy operator tooling.
- Lead and grow several engineering teams; hire, develop, and retain strong managers and senior engineers.
- Raise the bar on console usability, accessibility, performance, and safety across every RDS surface.
- Partner with AWS Console, design, product, and RDS platform teams to deliver a coherent, best-in-class experience.
- Represent console and operator strategy to senior AWS leadership and align stakeholders on long-term direction.

A day in the life
You start the day reviewing a prototype that brings an agentic assistant into the customer console, digging into how it stays safe, explainable, and trustworthy. You then meet with the operations console team on the plan to retire a legacy internal tool, and work through how operators will adopt the new experience during live events. In the afternoon you align with AWS Console and design partners on shared patterns, review your org's hiring pipeline with a manager, and spend time with a senior engineer shaping the multi-year architecture for an AI-native console platform.

Basic qualifications

- Experience in engineering
- Experience in engineering team management
- Experience in planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment

Preferred qualifications

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

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How we rate this

Sr. Software Development Manager, Relational Database Services at Amazon rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Sr. Software Development Manager, Relational Database Services is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The role is based in IE, D, Dublin.
The job was posted on September 11, 2026.
Seniority: executive.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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