Amazon Dev Centre Canada ULC Hiring for Software Engineering Manager, Amazon Location at Vancouver, BC Full Time

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years of relevant engineering experience
• 3+ years people management experience

Job summary

Do you enjoy solving real-world problems with emerging technologies? Are you driven to help customers solve their problems and take advantage of new opportunities? If you share our passion for the opportunity to take on big scale, building cutting edge technologies, developing applications that are easy to use and reliable, and forging the path on how serverless is done in the cloud, then we may just have a role for you.

With Amazon Location Service (https://aws.amazon.com/location/), customers can easily add capabilities such as maps, points of interest, geocoding, geofences, and tracking to applications. They retain control of their location data, so that they can combine proprietary data with data from the service without their private information ever leaving their AWS account. Amazon Location provides cost-effective location-based services using high-quality data from global, trusted providers Esri and HERE. With Amazon Location’s affordable data, tracking and geofencing capabilities, and built-in metrics for health monitoring, customers can bring sophisticated location-enabled applications to production quickly, without the high cost of custom development.

We are looking for a software development manager to guide the development and operation of Amazon Location. Amazon Location is a new geospatial service launched at re: Invent 2020. It’s an opportunity for you to personally change the way customers approach software in the cloud. You’ll bring a tremendous amount of customer obsession and bias for action to bear as you solve customer problems. You’ll seek ways to solve customer problems with designs that are deployed on a fully native AWS and serverless platform. You’ll obsess over the availability and performance of your service and proactively mitigate any threats. You will create an environment where engineers’ creativity can thrive and their careers can grow.

Work-life Balance

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

On-Call responsibility

You will be part of an escalation manager on-call rotation, typically for one day a week and 1 weekend every two months. Your team members, Sr. SDEs and managers will support you in your onboarding to operating a service at AWS, and will genuinely be happy to jump in and help.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We are dedicated to supporting the growth of our leadership team through mentorship and knowledge sharing. You’ll be surrounded with experienced managers and senior engineers in the team who will help you onboard to your new role, and to our tech solution.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Key job responsibilities

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience
• 2+ years people management experience
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role.
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.

A day in the life

Start your day, grab a coffee (or tea), say hi to your team, participate in the daily standup, participate in a design review meeting, have a one-on-one with one of your engineers, work on your team’s roadmap, guide the operational review meeting to monitor the health of the service.

About the team

Our team is passionate about location, privacy, and building modern serverless applications. We believe that location is a concept that people need to bring to and embed within their applications. We want to provide an easy way for AWS customers to do this while not comprising on privacy. And we want to do all this while building things in a modern serverless way on the AWS cloud.

• Hands-on technical expertise
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.