Position Overview
Join us in building the next generation of distributed systems and database technologies to power AWS!

About the Team
We are seeking a technical leader to join the Journal team, which owns the control plane scaling, automation infrastructure, and heat management systems that ensure Journal’s reliability at massive scale (100M+ TPS). You’ll architect solutions that intelligently distribute load, automate capacity decisions, and prevent thermal hotspots across our global fleet.

Responsibilities

Designing and developing novel, cutting edge, highly available, distributed systems software.

Delivering quality features on‑time and on‑budget and executing against project plans and delivery commitments.

Working with team members to manage day‑to‑day development activities, participating in designs, design reviews, code reviews, and implementation.

Mentoring other engineers.

Maintaining current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology, always being on the lookout for current technologies, and working with the team to bring in new technologies.

Candidate must be able to work with a minimum of technical supervision and supplemental engineering support, while responding efficiently to multiple program priorities. In addition, the role involves analyzing the latest technologies and development trends,



establishing and implementing standard practices.

Basic Qualifications

5+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.

5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.

5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.

Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Preferred Qualifications

5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Compensation & Benefits
The base salary range for this position is: CAN, ON, Toronto - 150,700.00 - 251,700.00 CAD annually. 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.

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

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