Manager, System Development, Fulfillment Optimization

Fulfillment Optimization (FO) organization makes the delivery promise the customer sees and plans the order placed customers plan labor and transportation resources. Which help to deliver on time and at the optimal cost. The FO Support team keeps that running. We are the central owner of operational excellence for FO the frontline on-call for its services and the team that automates away the operational load for an org of 500 engineers.

We are looking for a hands-on System Development Manager to lead one of our System Development and Support Engineering teams. You will own the reliability and on-call health of critical production systems. You will drive the automation that removes recurring operational load. And you will grow the engineers who do it. This role is for a technical leader who wants to raise the operational bar across a large org not just one team.

Key job responsibilities
Lead hire and develop a team of System Development and Support Engineers across multiple locations and time zones. Manage their performance and growth at every level.
Own the operational health of your teams services availability latency on-call and incident response and hold a high bar for operational excellence.
Drive automation and tooling that reduces manual effort and eliminates recurring operational load and set the technical direction for how your team builds it.
Own root-cause analysis and error correction. Turn incidents into durable systemic fixes rather than repeat work.
Define your teams roadmap by working backward from customer and business problems and partner with engineering and business stakeholders to prioritize competing demands.
Stay close to the technical details review designs remove blockers and make sound build-versus-buy and reliability trade-offs.


A day in the life
You start the day with your teams operational signals the health of the FO services you own and the metrics that matter. You join a design review for a new automation that will raise operational excellence across the org shape a solution that removes manual work and press the team on whether it will scale. You deliver through your engineers in Bellevue and partner with the other two FO Support teams to build at org scale. You unblock a cross-team dependency and review your roadmap. Across the day you balance keeping todays systems running with the automation that cuts tomorrows load and you grow the engineers who do both.

About the team
Fulfillment Optimization decides how every Amazon order gets fulfilled forecasting labor and transportation configuring the network and making the delivery promise the customer sees. FO Support is how that stays reliable. We are the frontline 24/7 on-call for FOs service teams and for the transportation network configuration changes that keep deliveries flowing. We own operational excellence for the org fewer incoming tickets more resolved within SLA more resolved without pulling developers off their work and we build the automation and tooling that makes it possible. The team spans Bellevue and India and works closely with software science and business partners across FO.

- 3 years of systems engineering and operations leadership for an Internet service or leading edge IT organization experience
- 5 years of managing system or software development teams experience
- 7 years of relevant hands-on systems engineering and administrative work in networking storage systems operating systems experience
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Experience in systems engineering and operations leadership for an Internet service or leading-edge IT organization
- Experience in managing system or software development teams
- Experience (hands-on) in systems engineering and administrative work in networking storage systems and operating systems
- Experience in agile software development methodology

- 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
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking storage operating systems)
- Experience with Agile engineering practices (Kanban continuous delivery etc.)
- Experience with AWS platforms services and design patterns

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Bellevue - 166300.00 - 225000.00 USD annually