Software Engineering Manager, AWS CloudFormation

Amazon; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 237,000 - 397,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a skilled engineering manager for AWS Infrastructure as Code. This position requires extensive experience managing engineering teams and working within development processes. You will lead efforts to improve customer experience in infrastructure provisioning operations, ensuring scalability and efficiency. Candidates should possess a strong background in multi-tier services, design patterns, and full development life cycle practices. Competitive compensation package included.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience.
• 3+ years of designing or architecting new and existing systems experience.
• 8+ years of leading multi-tier web services development experience.
• Knowledge of full development life cycle practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the CloudFormation Control Plane space.
• Drive customer experience for infrastructure provisioning.
• Scale the service to meet growing operation volumes.

Skills

Engineering team management

Design patterns

Reliability and scaling

Development of multi-tier web services

Full software/hardware/networks development life cycle understanding

Communication with technical teams and leadership

Job description

Description

AWS Infrastructure as Code helps customers to easily and efficiently adopt AWS services while ensuring that their applications run safely in the cloud. We develop services, including CloudFormation and Cloud Control API, that empower customers to spin up infrastructure across AWS at unprecedented scale.

The CloudFormation Core organization develops and maintains the Control Plane and Asynchronous Workflow Engine that powers provisioning operations at scale. We design and deliver features that support large‑scale traffic volume and deliver experiences that help customers deploy infrastructure safely.

This role will lead the CloudFormation Control Plane space, with the goal of driving the next level customer experience for infrastructure provisioning operations and scaling the service to meet an ever‑growing volume of operations.

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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Compensation

The base salary for this position ranges from $171,400/year up to $286,200/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign‑on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.