3 days ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate distributed systems for Amazon-scale workloads.
- Lead technical strategy and architecture while balancing delivery speed with long-term platform health.
- Build generic, composable, reusable services that reduce duplication and accelerate delivery.
- Drive monitoring, alarming, incident response, and on-call operational excellence.
- Partner with scientists, data engineers, capacity managers, and service owners to develop scalable solutions.
- Reduce manual toil through automation, self-service interfaces, tooling, and data-driven guardrails.
- Contribute through design reviews, code reviews, technical mentorship, and team-wide engineering practices.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 5 years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- At least 5 years of leading design or architecture for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
- Preferred: at least 5 years of full software development life-cycle experience covering coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: experience delivering complex software systems to customers.
- Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life and AD&D insurance, RRSP, DPSP, and paid time off.
- Additional resources to support health and well-being.
- Position is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.