Are you excited about the incredible opportunity that cloud computing represents? Are you passionate about delivering high-quality services and ready to apply your experience at massive scale? Amazon Web Services' Cloud Storage, Amazon S3, is one of the largest distributed storage systems in the world. We host trillions of objects and serve hundreds of millions of requests per second and we're continuing to grow!

We are looking for a passionate Software Development Manager to lead a team responsible for the primary gateway to S3's underlying storage systems. This team builds and maintains the services that efficiently translate customer requests into optimized storage operations, ensuring data integrity, performance, and reliability at unprecedented scale. As the leader of this team, you will be tackling some of the hardest computer science problems in distributed systems, building solutions that can handle varying access patterns and high request volumes from our customers.

In this role, you will:

Lead a team of talented software engineers, fostering their growth and development while delivering critical components of S3's architecture
Drive the technical roadmap for systems that bridge S3's Object APIs with our storage infrastructure
Partner with other S3 teams to design and implement improvements to our data flow architecture
Ensure operational excellence through metrics, monitoring, and continuous improvement
Recruit and develop top engineering talent to build a diverse and high-performing team
Drive innovation in how we handle data assembly, transformation, and delivery at scale

You'll work closely with the Object API and Storage teams to continuously improve our systems and deliver exceptional customer experiences.

A successful candidate will feel strongly not only about building good software but about building great teams. The ideal candidate will be able to lead in resource-constrained and performance-sensitive areas, with relentlessly high standards. This role is technical: you'll be expected to contribute to architecture discussions while regularly taking part in deep-dive troubleshooting exercises or technical post-mortem discussions to identify the root cause of complex issues. A strong understanding of distributed systems and experience operating services at scale is a plus.

About the team
The S3 Express Storage Service works on building and supporting high performance storage service that run in AZ and LZ mode. The team works in an agile fashion to deliver and scale our service as we grow to 70+ new availability zones in 2026 and start operating in new modes including with HDD storage media. Key technical challenges in the team are around Security, Durability, Availability, Performance, and Cost.
Basic Qualifications:
- 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
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience

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, BC, Vancouver - 171,400.00 - 286,200.00 CAD annually