Software Development Manager, Detail Page

Want to make an impact on how millions of customers shop every day

Amazon Product Detail Pages are among the most visited e-commerce pages in the world. Millions of customers view billions of our product pages every day. Our mission is to provide the accurate product information every customer needs to make informed and confident purchase decisions. Toward this goal we are continually raising the bar on the product and variation evaluation experience pushing the boundaries of user-interface design performance scalability and reliability. Our team comprises passionate and talented software engineers program managers designers and product managers all united by a singular goal: to create the worlds best buying experience.

We are looking for a Software Development Manager (SDM) to lead and define the technical direction build an exceptional team and drive operational excellence at massive scale (multi-million transactions per second).

This role supports Detail Pages core back-end framework which serves customers by ensuring Detail Page performance and availability and enables Amazons internal category country and program teams to innovate for their customers. The framework handles 55 billion service calls per week at 99.999% availability. It is a highly federated architecture to which 160 teams have contributed features amounting to 3000 builds and one of the largest fleets in Amazon Consumer with thousands of instances.

The system operates at very large scale with tight latency and availability requirements making this an ideal opportunity for someone passionate about performance engineering and eager to be on the latest architecture at Amazon. This role requires deep expertise in leading large-scale Tier-1 systems.

The team works across a variety of front-end back-end and server technologies to deliver a scalable and extensible system architecture across all devices and browsers with low-latency and bandwidth considerations.

A day in the life
Work on a system that customers touch every day Amazons detail pages are one of the most visited and iconic pages on the internet. Ability to work with an amazing set of builders across Science Engineering Economists Product Managers TPMs and exposure to Sr. PEs and Distinguished Engineers in the broader org and across the company. This role will help invent multi-region highly reliable low latency architecture.

- 7 years of engineering experience
- 3 years of engineering team management 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

- 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

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