Software Development Manager, S3

Amazon

Amazon

Software Engineering
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posted on Jul 3, 2025

DESCRIPTION

Are you excited about the incredible opportunity that cloud computing represents? Are you passionate about delivering quality services and ready to apply your experience at massive scale?

Amazon Web Services' Cloud Storage, AWS S3, is one of the largest storage in the world. We host trillions of objects and serve millions of requests per second and we're growing more than 100% year over year.

Ever tried to find a needle in a haystack? With trillions of objects to manage, keeping track of what is in your S3 bucket is hard. S3 Index Services team develops software responsible for durability and availability of key-value metadata. Developers in the S3 Index Services team work on some of the hardest computer science problems. We build that can handle wildly varying access patterns and unprecedented load by our customers. Managing this growth auto-magically, without the need for customers to provision capacity, is what puts the SIMPLE in S3.

S3 Index Services team is looking for a passionate and innovative technical leader with strong delivery track record. You will be leading a team of highly skilled software engineers to deliver the next generation of S3 indexing system. You will have the opportunity to utilize your experience managing a team of software developers to deliver cutting-edge services on schedule with the highest industry quality and a high degree of innovation. You must be detail oriented and hands-on with a desire to stay close to the technology. At the same time you must have a strong business acumen and judgment and be deeply customer-centric. You will be leading a team using agile practices and must be able to mentor and motivate the team to deliver superior results.

Key job responsibilities
- Establishes technology roadmaps and long-term plans for a core set of S3 services
- Creates a culture of producing high-quality code, system designs, documentation and testing
- Prioritizes appropriate operational, availability, security, durability, performance/latency improvements on services owned by the team
- Mentors and guides their team members in their career growth
- Creates a safe, inclusive, diverse and equitable team culture
- Makes sure we're having fun along the way!