Software Development Manager, CloudTune

Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC - K03; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology organization in Toronto is seeking an experienced Software Development Manager to lead technical development for cloud scaling software. This crucial role aims to automate processes and drive decision-making to meet Amazon's growing demands. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience in engineering, team management, and designing multi-tier web services. Competitive compensation and opportunities for professional growth are offered.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams.
• 3+ years of designing or architecting systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive technical development for SDO's software.
• Build automation, processes, and systems for scalable growth.
• Communicate with senior leaders and diverse teams.

Skills

Engineering team management

System design and architecture

Web services development

Technical communication

Collaboration across diverse teams

Job description

Overview

The CloudTune team within Amazon's Intelligent Cloud Control organization is looking for a passionate, inventive, and influential technical leader to define and drive technical development for SDO's scaling and infrastructure spend planning software. Our primary goal is to invent new software systems that remove human decision-making from SDO's scaling and cost controllership processes. We envision CloudTune solutions driving end-to-end automation that provisions Amazon's services appropriately for a great customer experience, while optimizing for availability and cost. We aim to eliminate vast quantities of undifferentiated and often tedious work for SDO development teams - our opportunity for impact to tens of thousands of developers is enormous. Vision to see and influence beyond our current systems and processes will be your key to successfully innovate in this space. Your will play a key role in envisioning, designing and implementing the successful outcome to our vision.

As a Software Development Manager in CloudTune, you will be in a highly visible role that is critical to the success of Amazon's ability to scale reliably and efficiently to meet Amazon's ever-increasing customer demand and breadth of service offerings. Your products will drive responsible decision-making for Amazon's retail website and mobile clients, Amazon's Alexa infrastructure, digital device support, Prime Video and more. You will work closely with CloudTune's team of scientists who issue traffic and order forecasts, and capacity management teams that negotiate Amazon's retail compute capacity needs with AWS. Your role will be to build the automation, processes and systems that support the majority of Amazon's retail business' growth cost effectively. This role has a very broad impact with high influence.

Clear and precise written and verbal communication abilities are essential, as you will be interacting regularly with senior business, technical and finance leaders across Amazon. Ability to collaborate and quickly earn trust across teams with diverse perspectives and goals is equally important. You must have strong bias for action and a history of delivering results while keeping your stakeholders well informed.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
• 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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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