Software Development Manager, S3 Storage
Role Overview
Lead the S3 Storage team developing global, highly available services that route customer traffic to the S3 fleet.
The work addresses storage and performance optimization, availability, resiliency, security, cost, and capacity at large scale.
The manager owns the team's goals and roadmap and contributes to strategic direction.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Lead the S3 Storage team developing global, highly available services that route customer traffic to the S3 fleet.
The work addresses storage and performance optimization, availability, resiliency, security, cost, and capacity at large scale.
The manager owns the team's goals and roadmap and contributes to strategic direction.
Key responsibilities
- Lead and develop software engineers delivering critical S3 architecture components.
- Drive the roadmap for systems bridging S3 Object APIs and storage infrastructure.
- Partner with S3 teams on data-flow architecture improvements.
- Use metrics, monitoring, and continuous improvement to support operational excellence.
- Recruit and develop engineering talent.
- Improve data assembly, transformation, and delivery at scale.
- Balance resiliency, availability, performance, cost, and capacity across the S3 fleet.
- Participate in focused on-call rotations for S3 services.
Basic qualifications
- At least 3 years of engineering team management experience.
- At least 7 years working directly within engineering teams.
- At least 3 years designing or architecting systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- 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 standards, reviews, source control, builds, testing, certification, and live-site operations.
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience communicating with users, technical teams, and senior leaders about requirements, product features, technical designs, and strategy.
- Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring, coaching, and managing software engineers.
On-call
- S3 service work includes focused on-call rotations, with designated periods on call and off call.
Compensation
- The listed base salary range is CAD 171,400 to CAD 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.
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