Software Development Manager, Elastic Container Service

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Lead, hire, and develop a team of 6–12 software engineers.
• Own ECS control-plane or data-plane design, delivery, and operations, including areas such as scheduling, orchestration, runtime, networking integration, or deployments.
• Own availability, latency, security, on-call health, COE reviews, and delivery of corrective fixes.
• Set the roadmap from customer problem through launch and operations; write and review PRFAQs and design documents with product management.
• Plan multi-quarter delivery, balancing features, technical debt, scale, and operational work.
• Improve testing, deployment safety, observability, and use of AI-assisted development.
• Resolve cross-team technical and prioritization conflicts; engage customers and field teams on needs and escalations.

Basic qualifications

• At least 3 years of engineering team management experience and 7 years of engineering experience.
• At least 8 years leading definition and development of multi-tier web services.
• Knowledge of engineering practices across the software, hardware, and networks lifecycle, including coding, reviews, source control, builds, testing, certification, and live-site operations.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Preferred qualifications

• Communicating with users, technical teams, and senior leadership about requirements, features, designs, and strategy.
• Recruiting, hiring, mentoring, coaching, and managing software engineers.
• Linux and networking protocols, or Kubernetes, Docker, or container ecosystem experience.
• At least 3 years of virtualization, orchestration, or cloud computing experience, or a bachelor's degree in a listed quantitative or technical field or equivalent.
• Production-services experience with Go, Rust, or C++.

Compensation

• The stated base salary range is CAD 171,400–286,200 annually for Vancouver, British Columbia.
• Total compensation may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units; final compensation depends on experience, qualifications, and location.