Sr Technical Program manager, Aurora Open Source Product
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a world-class Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM III) to manage core service programs and projects for AWS Aurora—including building new features, driving operational excellence, and ensuring service fundamentals. This is a highly visible and challenging position within one of AWS's most critical database services.
About the Role
Technical Program Managers in Aurora own large, complex programs spanning interconnected dependencies across the organization, ensuring they execute efficiently and effectively at cloud scale. You will be responsible for identifying and engaging stakeholders, partnering with technical leads and product management to define roadmaps and strategies, driving release delivery, and providing ongoing status reporting to senior leadership. You will champion quality and ensure the engineering bar does not drop. It will be your responsibility to navigate inter-team dependencies, identify gaps in execution, and drive associated teams to deliver results.
You will work across domains—specifically with product management, software engineers, engineering managers, and UX teams—to drive high-profile projects and releases for Aurora security. You will be responsible for driving deployments to our high-security regions, requiring careful stakeholder engagement and understanding of complex technical interdependencies.
About Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database service that combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. Aurora is fully compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL, delivering up to 5x the throughput of standard PostgreSQL and 3x the throughput of standard MySQL—without requiring application modifications. Aurora features a high-performance distributed storage subsystem that automatically scales up to 128 TiB, with six-way replication across three Availability Zones for fault tolerance and high availability. Aurora also offers serverless capabilities, fast database cloning, point-in-time recovery, and Multi-Master support for continuous write availability.
What You'll Do
Own and drive complex, cross-functional technology programs from inception through delivery, managing the full program lifecycle across multiple engineering teams
Partner with technical leads and product management to define program strategy, roadmaps, and success criteria
Navigate ambiguity where business problems, program strategy, and technology solutions may not yet be defined
Drive release delivery for Aurora features and security deployments, including high-security region launches
Identify and manage risks, dependencies, and blockers across 5+ stakeholder groups; escalate effectively to senior leadership
Establish program metrics, track delivery velocity, and provide clear reporting to Directors and VPs
Streamline processes to increase speed of delivery and eliminate unnecessary overhead
Contribute to technology strategy and architecture decisions, ensuring appropriate trade-offs between scalability, security, performance, and business requirements
A Successful Candidate Will Have
A strong technical background with the ability to understand and contribute to technology strategy and system design for cloud-scale distributed services
Experience driving technical architecture decisions, delivery, and operations
Demonstrated ability to manage complex programs with high technical ambiguity and multiple stakeholder groups
Comfort with executive-level communication, escalation, and answering probing questions on program status
Experience unblocking teams and increasing the speed of delivery through effective negotiation of resources and priorities
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. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 3+ years of software development experience
- 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules- 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
USA, WA, Redmond - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually
About the Role
Technical Program Managers in Aurora own large, complex programs spanning interconnected dependencies across the organization, ensuring they execute efficiently and effectively at cloud scale. You will be responsible for identifying and engaging stakeholders, partnering with technical leads and product management to define roadmaps and strategies, driving release delivery, and providing ongoing status reporting to senior leadership. You will champion quality and ensure the engineering bar does not drop. It will be your responsibility to navigate inter-team dependencies, identify gaps in execution, and drive associated teams to deliver results.
You will work across domains—specifically with product management, software engineers, engineering managers, and UX teams—to drive high-profile projects and releases for Aurora security. You will be responsible for driving deployments to our high-security regions, requiring careful stakeholder engagement and understanding of complex technical interdependencies.
About Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database service that combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. Aurora is fully compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL, delivering up to 5x the throughput of standard PostgreSQL and 3x the throughput of standard MySQL—without requiring application modifications. Aurora features a high-performance distributed storage subsystem that automatically scales up to 128 TiB, with six-way replication across three Availability Zones for fault tolerance and high availability. Aurora also offers serverless capabilities, fast database cloning, point-in-time recovery, and Multi-Master support for continuous write availability.
What You'll Do
Own and drive complex, cross-functional technology programs from inception through delivery, managing the full program lifecycle across multiple engineering teams
Partner with technical leads and product management to define program strategy, roadmaps, and success criteria
Navigate ambiguity where business problems, program strategy, and technology solutions may not yet be defined
Drive release delivery for Aurora features and security deployments, including high-security region launches
Identify and manage risks, dependencies, and blockers across 5+ stakeholder groups; escalate effectively to senior leadership
Establish program metrics, track delivery velocity, and provide clear reporting to Directors and VPs
Streamline processes to increase speed of delivery and eliminate unnecessary overhead
Contribute to technology strategy and architecture decisions, ensuring appropriate trade-offs between scalability, security, performance, and business requirements
A Successful Candidate Will Have
A strong technical background with the ability to understand and contribute to technology strategy and system design for cloud-scale distributed services
Experience driving technical architecture decisions, delivery, and operations
Demonstrated ability to manage complex programs with high technical ambiguity and multiple stakeholder groups
Comfort with executive-level communication, escalation, and answering probing questions on program status
Experience unblocking teams and increasing the speed of delivery through effective negotiation of resources and priorities
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. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 3+ years of software development experience
- 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules- 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Redmond - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually