Sr. Manager, Platform Engineering - AWS

Location: Corp - Miami Corporate Office

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Ready to make your next big professional move? Join us on our journey to achieve our big dream of building the most loved restaurant brands in the world.   

Restaurant Brands International Inc. is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with nearly $45 billion in annual system-wide sales and over 32,000 restaurants in more than 120 countries and territories.

RBI owns four of the world's most prominent and iconic quick service restaurant brands – TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES®, and FIREHOUSE SUBS®. These independently operated brands have been serving their respective guests, franchisees and communities for decades. Through its Restaurant Brands for Good framework, RBI is improving sustainable outcomes related to its food, the planet, and people and communities.

RBI is committed to growing the TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES® and FIREHOUSE SUBS® brands by leveraging their respective core values, employee and franchisee relationships, and long track records of community support. Each brand benefits from the global scale and shared best practices that come from ownership by Restaurant Brands International Inc.

As the Senior Platform Engineering Manager, AWS, you will be the technical owner of RBI's AWS platform—the deeply hands-on leader who untangles the hardest problems across our cloud infrastructure. From our Transaction Log (T-Log) APIs to real-time data pipelines and internal developer tools, you'll dive into the AWS internals when things break, scale, or need to be re-architected. You'll be the person engineers escalate to when a Glue job is silently corrupting data, when DynamoDB throttling is cascading through production, or when a Lambda cold-start pattern is blowing through cost budgets. Your work will accelerate decision-making and unlock new guest-facing experiences across RBI's global footprint.

RBI follows a 5 day, in-office work schedule to support collaboration. Candidates should be comfortable working onsite 5 days per week out of our office in Miami, FL.

What You'll Do:

• Deep AWS Problem Solving: Diagnose and resolve complex, high-stakes issues across AWS services—IAM permission boundaries, VPC networking, Glue and EMR job failures, Kinesis/MSK throughput bottlenecks, Lambda concurrency limits, S3 consistency edge cases, and cross-account access patterns. You're the final escalation point for the gnarly stuff. 
• Platform Architecture: Re-architect underperforming or fragile systems; make hard tradeoff calls on services, patterns, and AWS-native vs. open-source tooling. Own the long-term technical direction of the platform. 
• Data Engineering: Build and optimize batch & streaming data pipelines (ETL/ELT) that deliver clean, reliable data to Snowflake and other analytics platforms—debugging the failures others can't. 
• Software Craftsmanship: Write and review clean, well-tested code (Terraform, Python, TypeScript/Node.js), and uphold engineering rigor through code reviews, design docs, and CI/CD automation. 
• Cloud Infrastructure: Provision and manage AWS resources using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible or Serverless Framework). Own platform performance, reliability, security, and cost—and tune all four when they're out of balance. 
• Operational Excellence: Lead incident response for platform-level issues; drive observability using Datadog, CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry; identify technical debt and lead the refactoring efforts that pay it down. 
• Collaboration: Partner with data scientists, analysts, product managers, and fellow engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions, and provide Tier-2 support for the services you own. 

What You'll Bring:

• 5+ in data engineering roles, with a proven track record of leading and managing data engineering teams. 
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related technical field. 
• Effective communication skills and drive to mentor team members. 
• 3+ years of professional experience with managing engineers. 
• 3+ years of professional experience with complex SQL queries. 
• 2+ years of professional experience with AWS. 

Tools & technologies you’ll work with:

• Snowflake 
• Terraform 
• Apache Airflow 
• AWS Glue and other AWS Services 
• NoSQL databases like DynamoDB  
• Serverless framework  
• Tableau 
• TypeScript / JavaScript 
• Datadog 

Benefits at all of our global offices are focused on physical, mental and financial wellness. We offer unique and progressive benefits, including a comprehensive global paid parental leave program that supports employees as they expand their families, free telemedicine and mental wellness support.

Restaurant Brands International and all of its affiliated companies (collectively, RBI) are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers that do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, provincial or federal laws, rules, or regulations. RBI's policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment. Accommodation is available for applicants with disabilities upon request.