Software Dev Manager, DDB Index and Search

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Software Development Manager, DynamoDB Vector Search

Amazon DynamoDB is looking for a Software Development Manager to lead a new initiative building native vector search, full-text search, and hybrid retrieval . You will lead engineers working at the intersection of distributed databases, information retrieval, and AI infrastructure, enabling customers to search their operational data without building and managing a separate search stack.

The technical decisions are substantial. How should vector indexes be organized across a changing, partitioned dataset? How do selective filters affect approximate nearest-neighbor retrieval? How should semantic and keyword results be combined? How do you deliver high recall and predictable tail latency while data is continuously inserted, updated, and deleted?

Your team will tackle these questions across the search stack—from index structures and storage integration to distributed query execution and relevance evaluation. The work includes evaluating graph-based and clustering-based indexing approaches, compression, caching, text analysis, and ranking. You will guide decisions about what to build, how to measure it, and how to evolve the architecture as customer workloads grow.