Software Development Manager — Distributed Systems Lead

Amazon Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 171,000 - 286,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. in Toronto, ON is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead Journal Control Plane services and automations at scale.

You will guide a team of software engineers, collaborating with tenured Principal and Senior Engineers to deliver high availability and scalable systems. You will define roadmaps, mentor engineers, and drive best practices across the full software development lifecycle while aligning with product management and customers.

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.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery of software development projects end-to-end.
• Define your team's roadmap and manage the ongoing projects, keeping customers informed, update senior management, and represent the team to their dependencies.
• Work with the engineers in your team to invent, design, and develop highly available and scalable distributed systems and database technologies.
• Work with your team, your peers, senior management, and senior engineers to implement best practices in software development and operational processes.
• Develop and grow the members of your team, as well as mentoring others.
• Keep up to date with new technologies used in the field and by our customers, to stay current in our rapidly changing environment.

Skills

Engineering management

Engineering teams experience

Designing architectures

Leading multi‑tier web services

Development life cycle

Product management collaboration

Job description

Amazon Inc. in Toronto, ON is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead Journal Control Plane services and automations at scale.

You will guide a team of software engineers, collaborating with tenured Principal and Senior Engineers to deliver high availability and scalable systems. You will define roadmaps, mentor engineers, and drive best practices across the full software development lifecycle while aligning with product management and customers.