System Development Manager Jobs in Vancouver, BC

Come join us and set the course for the next generation of storage optimization solutions for one of the largest scale distributed systems in the world.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is storage for the Internet. Through the use of pioneering techniques in storage & computing, customers can reliably store their on Amazon's proven computing infrastructure to achieve virtually limitless storage capacity at minimal cost.

Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that enables customers to store and retrieve any amount of from anywhere in the world. It provides all customers access to the same highly scalable, reliable, secure, fast, inexpensive infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of websites. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to the customers.
As a Software Development Manager with-in the S3 Request Plane, you will help your team to design, develop and deliver global highly available services that provide robust, safe, scalable and secure ways for customers to route traffic to the S3 fleet

You will encounter challenges in the domains of storage and performance optimization, availability and resiliency. You will operate in a fast paced environment with a high level of ownership. Expect to ship software today that impacts millions of customers tomorrow.
The ideal candidate is excited about the potential of cloud computing and is passionate about delivering quality services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities can shift fast

You have a strategic focus, yet retain hands-on management as you build your team. You have had success leading operational services and are ready to apply that experience at even greater scale. You will own the goals and roadmap of your engineering team and will have a major stake in the strategic direction of your software.
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations - from foundational services such as Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS's services and features apart in the industry

As a member of the UC organization, you'll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
On-Call Responsibility: S3 services are highly available, but there are times when we occasionally stray away from our normal operations. To minimize the impact of such excursions, we have on-call rotations. However, we set these up so there are focused time periods when you are on-call and when you are not, so you can focus on your day job when not on-call.
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Key job responsibilities
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
A day in the life
As the leader of the Routing and Blob Placement team, you will interact with stakeholders in the Storage Request and Control Plane systems bridging the gap between the physical and logical views of the fleet

You will be working on optimization problems working on balancing between software resiliency, availability, performance, cost aspects of S3's fleet and capacity.
About the team
The team works on algorithmic and infrastructure problems related to routing and placement of customer bytes and requests in S3. The team focuses on security, durability, software resiliency, availability, performance, cost aspects of S3's fleet and capacity.