Senior Software Development Manager, S3 – Amazon – Vancouver, BC

At the frontier of cloud analytics, Amazon S3 Tables is redefining what a storage system can do — and the team in Vancouver, BC is looking for a Senior Software Development Manager to lead the charge. This is a rare leadership opportunity to own the technical vision and multi-year roadmap of a fast-growing, high-impact service built on the most durable storage infrastructure ever created.

S3 Tables is the first cloud object store with native Apache Iceberg support, engineered for analytics workloads at exabyte scale. From streaming IoT telemetry ingestion to multi-petabyte lakehouses and AI agent data access via the Model Context Protocol, the problems this team tackles are genuinely novel. As the leader of this multi-team organization, you’ll be at the intersection of distributed systems, open-source table formats, and the open analytics ecosystem — partnering across AWS, the Apache Iceberg community, and enterprise customers worldwide.

About the Role: Senior Software Development Manager, S3

This position calls for a leader who is energized by problems that only emerge at S3 scale. You will own architectural decisions for metadata services, compaction and optimization pipelines, snapshot and transaction management, and engine integrations — all while growing and mentoring a team of senior engineers and engineering managers. The role demands both strategic depth and hands-on technical credibility.

You will work closely with product, business, and AWS analytics leadership to translate customer needs into engineering priorities, represent S3 Tables in senior leadership reviews and external forums, and help shape the evolution of Apache Iceberg in the cloud. This is a builder’s role on a team that is early in its journey, moving quickly, and inventing in places others assume are already solved.

Benefits and Salary

The base salary range for this position is $214,200 to $357,800 CAD annually. As a total compensation company, Amazon’s package may also include sign-on payments and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). Final compensation is determined based on experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life and AD&D insurance), a Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), a Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and additional resources to support health and well-being. Flexible work hours and arrangements are also part of the culture.

Responsibilities

As Senior Software Development Manager for S3 Tables, your day-to-day work spans technical leadership, organizational development, and direct customer impact. You will be accountable for the health and direction of a multi-team organization while staying close enough to the technical architecture to drive sound decisions at scale. Every initiative your team ships translates directly into improvements in query latency, ingestion throughput, and cost efficiency for customers running demanding analytics workloads.

• Lead and grow a multi-team organization of senior engineers and engineering managers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, deep ownership, and customer obsession
• Define and execute a 1-to-3-year technical roadmap, balancing near-term customer wins with long-horizon bets on query performance, table maintenance, metadata scale, and Iceberg evolution
• Drive architectural decisions for distributed systems at exabyte scale, including metadata services, compaction and optimization pipelines, snapshot and transaction management, and engine integrations
• Advance S3 Tables as the highest performing, most cost-effective home for Apache Iceberg, and actively contribute back to the open-source Iceberg project
• Partner with product, business, and AWS analytics leadership to translate customer needs into engineering priorities that move adoption and trust
• Establish operational excellence standards across availability, durability, latency, and throughput, and lead the organization in exceeding them as the service scales
• Recruit, develop, and retain top talent, building a diverse, high-performing organization with a strong pipeline of future leaders
• Represent S3 Tables in senior leadership reviews, customer engagements, and external forums with clarity and conviction

Requirements / Skills

The ideal candidate brings deep engineering experience, a track record of leading high-performing teams, and the technical credibility to engage meaningfully with senior engineers building systems at massive scale. Amazon values diverse career paths and encourages candidates to apply even if their background doesn’t follow a traditional route — what matters most is your ability to think big, invent on behalf of customers, and execute with rigour.

• 10+ years of engineering experience, with a strong foundation in planning, designing, developing, and delivering consumer software
• 5+ years of engineering team management experience, leading and growing technical organizations
• Agile project management experience managing multiple concurrent programmes, projects, and development teams
• Partnership with product or programme management teams to align engineering priorities with business outcomes
• Experience designing and developing large-scale, high-traffic applications (preferred)

How to Apply

To apply for this Senior Software Development Manager position at Amazon in Vancouver, use the link below to access the official application. Make sure your resume is current and reflects your most relevant engineering leadership experience before submitting.

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