Senior Software Development Manager in Vancouver

Amazon S3 Tables is the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, purpose-built for storing and querying tabular data at massive scale. It is fully managed, continuously optimizing, and delivers up to 10x higher transactions per second than Iceberg tables on general purpose S3 buckets, all within the same foundation that gives S3 eleven nines of durability. Customers are bringing their most demanding analytics workloads to S3 Tables, from streaming ingestion of IoT and application telemetry to multi-petabyte lakehouses powering multiple AWS and partner query engines, and a growing wave of AI agents that query data directly through the Model Context Protocol. Our mission is simple and ambitious: to make S3 Tables the best place on Earth to store and query Iceberg data, and reinvent what an analytics-native object store can be.

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Manager to lead the multi-team S3 Tables organization. In this role, you will own the technical vision, multi-year roadmap, and execution for the service, working at a scale that very few engineers in the industry ever encounter. Your organization will ship innovations that customers feel directly in query latency, cost per terabyte scanned, ingestion throughput, and the simplicity of running an open lakehouse on AWS.

This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, open-source table formats, and large-scale analytics. You will help define how Iceberg evolves in the cloud, partnering with the Apache Iceberg community and with engine teams across AWS and partners to ensure S3 Tables is the gravitational center of the open analytics ecosystem. Internally, you will partner with S3 storage, indexing, and control plane teams, and with AWS analytics leadership, to deliver a service that is both deeply integrated and uncompromisingly open.

Key job responsibilities:

• 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-to-near 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.
• Make S3 Tables the highest performing, most cost effective home for Apache Iceberg anywhere, and contribute back to the Iceberg open source 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 org 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.

About the team:

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

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Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years of engineering experience
• 5+ years of engineering team management experience
• 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams
• Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience partnering with product and program management teams
• Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications