Amazon

Description

We're seeking an experienced Software Development Manager to lead the EKS Lighthouse team — the experience and intelligence layer of Amazon's Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Lighthouse owns how customers observe, diagnose, and manage their Kubernetes clusters at scale through EKS Console, APIs, multi-cluster dashboard, and AI-enabled diagnostic workflows.

This role combines technical leadership, people management, and strategic thinking to drive the future of container orchestration and influence how AWS simplifies Kubernetes management at scale.

You would own staffing and managing a two-pizza engineering team that will work on creating and operating the fleet of integration services at scale. You would define product roadmaps, build team culture, develop best practices, and continually improve the overall experience for integrating with EKS. The successful candidate will be able to deal with ambiguity, have a passion for problem-solving at scale, and will need to be operationally/technically strong.

If you are excited to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment to deliver results, we would love to hear from you!

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN, BC, Vancouver - 171,400.00 - 286,200.00 CAD annually