Senior Startup Solutions Architect Startups jobs at Amazon in Canada, Old Toronto

Key job responsibilities
Leadership & People Management* Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of Startup Solutions Architects across Canada.
* Set technical priorities, coach on career development, and create a culture of builder-first, hands-on engagement with startups.
* Ensure consistent execution of technical depth and startup empathy across the team.
* Partner closely with Canadian startup account managers, BD teams, and ecosystem programs (VCs, accelerators, incubators).Regional Technical Strategy* Develop and execute the technical engagement strategy for Canada’s startup ecosystem.
* Tailor global mechanisms to Canadian needs, with emphasis on GenAI, data strategy, and regulated industries.
* Represent AWS in Canada’s startup and research communities, building relationships with universities, accelerators, and industry groups.
* Provide input to global SA leadership on trends emerging from Canada (AI/ML, fintech, climate tech).Hands-On Technical Leadership* While primarily a manager, stay hands-on enough to maintain credibility with founders and CTOs.
* Guide startups on cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes/EKS, DevOps/SRE practices, and serverless-first design.
* Provide expertise on GenAI workloads: foundation model usage, training/fine-tuning, inference scaling, and cost optimization.
* Advise on data strategy: proprietary data as a moat, data labeling, pipelines, compliance (especially PIPEDA in Canada), and ML readiness.Scaling & Mechanism Building* Drive creation of reference architectures, reusable assets, and enablement programs that scale across the Canada SA org.
* Build technical enablement programs for Canadian founders, including workshops on cloud-native, AI/ML, and data foundations.
* Partner with Canadian accelerators (Creative Destruction Lab, NextAI, Communitech, etc.) to deliver impactful technical programming

- 10+ years of management of technical, enterprise customer facing resources or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc.

- Strong familiarity with Canada’s startup ecosystem, including government programs (IRAP, SR&ED), AI research hubs, and local funding dynamics.

SDEs at Ring contribute to all the steps of the software development lifecycle. They gather, discuss and suggest requirements and features, they design and implement software, automate testing and operate the services their team owns.Key job responsibilities
Design, implement, and maintain mission-critical services powering Video Monitoring's event processing and agent investigation workflows with sub-two-second response timesCollaborate with Product Management, GTM stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to translate ambiguous customer requirements into concrete technical solutionsOwn long-term technical direction for VM platform evolution from human-centered monitoring to AI-agent based automated detection while maintaining human oversightIdentify and address systemic technical issues limiting scalability and time-to-market through GenAI adoption and evangelizationA day in the life

- 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

- 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

As a Senior Startup Investor Manager within AWS, you will work with venture capital firms and angel investors to accelerate portfolio company success. You'll work with key investors to help unlock the potential of their portfolio companies on AWS, enabling faster innovation and scaling. Your role focuses on supporting meaningful initiatives between the investment community and AWS, helping startups leverage cloud to achieve breakthrough growth. You'll combine technical understanding of cloud and emerging technologies, such as generative AI, with business acumen to identify opportunities and ensure startups have access to the tools, expertise, and support needed to build world-changing products on AWS infrastructure.Key job responsibilities
• Support and execute initiatives with venture and angel firms, contributing to investor-focused programs that accelerate portfolio company success• Implement solutions that address specific startup and investor needs• Collaborate on cross-functional initiatives involving AWS Startups, Sales, Marketing, and Product teams• Monitor program effectiveness and provide feedback based on results• Collect early-stage market signals from investors and founders to support AWS innovation and help meet the evolving needs of tomorrow's breakthrough companies• Evaluate technical and business potential of startups through understanding of their architecture, technology stack, and market opportunity• Serve as technical advisor to portfolio companies, helping them optimize their cloud architecture and go-to-market approachAbout the team
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Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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.Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.Work/Life Balance

- 7+ years of experience in technology industry with focus on startups, ideally in combination with technical roles
- Strong understanding of cloud computing architectures, services, and best practices and familiarity with generative AI technologies
- Experience supporting business initiatives that drive measurable outcomes
- Understanding of technical patterns and architectures for workloads relevant to startups
- Bachelor's degree in technical or technical management field or equivalent experience

- Advanced degree (MBA or technical)
- Experience at startups or venture capital/angel firms
- Experience building and scaling cloud-native applications from the ground up
- Strong analytical and technical assessment capabilities
- Experience with commercial aspects of fast-growing technical businesses
- Ability to understand and evaluate emerging technologies
- Experience in multiple technical domains (AI/ML, Security, Infrastructure)

Key job responsibilities
As an experienced technology professional, you will be expected to:2. Lead internal initiatives to deliver quantifiable impact
3. Develop strategic relationships with internal and external leaders
4. Design and implement complex, scalable, and secure AWS solutions tailored to customer needs
5. Enable and engage delivery partners in project delivery
6. Provide mentorship and coaching to develop others
Diverse Experiences: AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job below, 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.
Mentorship & Career Growth - We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

- 5+ years of experience in cloud architecture and implementation
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience
- 3+ year(s) of experience in IT security, compliance, or risk management
- 5+ years experience in technology automation, implementation, integration, and/or deployment

- AWS experience preferred, with proficiency in a wide range of AWS services (e.g. EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation)
- AWS Professional level certifications (e.g. Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional) preferred
- Experience with automation and scripting (e.g. Terraform, Python)
- Knowledge of security and compliance standards (e.g. HIPAA, GDPR)
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Work experience in any of the following industries: financial services (banking, capital markets, payments, insurance, or other segments), automotive, telecommunications, healthcare, life sciences, energy, media & entertainment, or manufacturing.
- Hands-on technical expertise in building security capabilities in code, deploying infrastructure as code, and implementing enterprise security solutions (e.g. WAF, IPS, Anti-DDOS, SIEM)

You and your team will be responsible for all aspects of the customer experience - from the visual interface to the back-end services. You will be working with new technologies that improve usability and increase performance and scalability. You will help redefine normal for the business ecommerce market.You will help translate business requirements to technical deliverables and deliver operationally stable solutions that provide good customer experience. Candidates need to have strong ownership, passion to provide great customer experience and extreme focus on deliver results.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer, you will:- Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
- Build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
- Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
- Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high quality software.

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence

- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Key job responsibilities
- Research and implement the state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning methods to deliver high-quality artifacts that meets product specifications.
- Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and gap analysis.
- Provide technical leadership and research new machine learning approaches to drive continued scientific innovation.

- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

As a Software Development Engineer on the team, you will:* Design, build and own iOS app features full stack, as well as integrations with Kindle iOS.
* Be a key player in a talented Mobile team and bring flexibility, speed, and quality to the team.
* Partner with Android and full stack engineers on elevating the overall Android mobile experience
* Work with Service teams to develop and improve API calls
* Work in a fast-paced environment where releases are done every 4-6 weeks.

- 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

- 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