Software Development Manager, 3P Pricing

Were looking for a Software Development Manager to lead the PDS team (9 engineers) and own the reliability scale and evolution of the services that deliver competitive-pricing signals to Sellers and internal clients in near-real time.

Youll set technical direction for a fleet of latency- and throughput-sensitive distributed systems processing billions of events daily own the roadmap for our Seller-facing and internal APIs and drive operational excellence for services that Sellers depend on to make pricing decisions. This is a hands-on leadership role: youll guide architecture and design reviews unblock engineers on hard distributed-systems and high-throughput event-processing problems and represent PDS with SP-API Selling Partner and internal pricing/science stakeholders.

Key job responsibilities
Own the PDS service roadmap: lead the technical strategy and delivery for the teams Seller-facing and internal APIs and event-notification systems (PEN Featured Offer notifications SP-API Pricing APIs).

Operate at scale: own the availability latency and correctness of systems publishing billions of messages/day and serving high-volume API traffic across WW marketplaces; drive operational excellence on-call health and incident reduction.
Lead and grow the team: manage mentor and develop 9 SDEs (including senior engineers); own hiring performance management and career growth; raise the engineering bar.

Deliver Seller and customer value: ensure Sellers receive timely actionable accurate pricing and offer notifications that help them set competitive prices closing the feedback loop with transparency.

Partner cross-functionally: work with SP-API Selling Partner Experience internal pricing consumers and science teams to meet client needs and evolve the APIs.

Drive scalability and efficiency: evolve the architecture to handle continued growth in Seller adoption and message volume while managing cost and complexity.

Communicate up and out: represent PDS status risks and roadmap to WWPP leadership and in planning mechanisms (OP1/OP2 MBR/QBR operational reviews).

About the team
The World-Wide Pricing & Promotions (WWPP) organization powers competitive pricing for Amazons Selling Partners worldwide. The Pricing Data Services (PDS) team owns the software that gives external Sellers and internal teams a real-time view of the state of competition across Amazons catalog so Sellers can set competitive prices that delight customers.

PDS builds and operates public-facing APIs and event-notification systems that let Sellers and internal clients programmatically consume price and offer updates and query pricing facts. These are high-scale high-impact systems: they serve hundreds of thousands of Sellers worldwide and 10 internal clients and publish billions of pricing and offer-change messages per day across US EU and JP marketplaces (e.g. Pricing Event Notification / PEN Featured Offer change notifications and the SP-API Pricing APIs).

- 3 years of engineering team management experience
- 7 years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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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