Software Development Manager, Region Flexibility Engineering

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

Job summary

Amazon’s Region Flexibility & Efficiency team is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a scalable software service delivery effort from Toronto. You will guide architecture, drive developer experience, and mentor engineers across multiple teams.

You’ll partner with product, QA, and platform teams to define roadmaps, implement automation and AI-enabled tooling, and recruit top talent to own parts of the AWS and internal tooling stack.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years working directly within engineering teams.
• 3+ years designing or architecting scalable systems.
• 8+ years leading multi-tier web services development.
• Knowledge of the full software/hardware/networks life cycle.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead team to solve scalable software architecture problems.
• Influence product design and architectural direction across teams.
• Define strategy, prioritization, and engineering roadmap.
• Identify opportunities and implement improvements for developer experience.
• Hire and develop top software engineers.
• Work with Principal Engineering community for support.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Multi-tier services

SDLC knowledge

Product collaboration

Staff development

Recruiting mentoring

Architectural design

Technical leadership

Job description

Software Development Manager, Region Flexibility Engineering

As a software development manager on the Region Flexibility & Efficiency (RFE) team, you will play an essential role in building the software services and experiences that allow Amazon software teams to run software globally. The technology and customer experiences you and your team will deliver will be used by thousands of software engineers across Amazon to simplify what it means to own software and run anywhere across the globe. Your team will build delightful user experiences, automated tooling and leverage AI to deliver code at scale, eliminating repetitive tasks, reducing overhead, and directly improving builder experience across Amazon.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead your team to solve intriguing problems in software architecture with highly scalable solutions, guiding your team in choosing the right technologies
• Directly influence your team’s product design and architectural direction while collaborating with different teams across the company
• Define the strategy, prioritization, and engineering roadmap for your team
• Identify opportunities and implement innovative solutions to improve developer experience for thousands of teams at Amazon
• Hire and develop the industry’s best talent to build a well-balanced team
• Be supported by a large and experienced Principal Engineering community

About the team

The Region Flexibility & Efficiency organization supports the rapid global expansion of Amazon's infrastructure. Our products support all Amazon businesses like Worldwide Stores, Alexa, Kindle, and Prime Video. We drive adoption of ever-evolving and state-of-the-art AWS and non-AWS technologies, and work closely with AWS teams to improve AWS public offerings. Our organization focuses on robust and scalable solutions that are simple to use and are delivered utilizing engineering best practices. We leverage and build foundational infrastructure capabilities, tools, and datasets that enable Amazon teams to delight our customers.

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

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. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN, ON, Toronto - 171,400.00 - 286,200.00 CAD annually

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.