Software Development Manager, Amazon Product Catalog, Contribution and Item Pipelines

Want to make the Earths largest product catalog of billions of items available in any language all over the world all the time in milliseconds millions of times per second

The catalog team is looking for a highly technical manager who enjoys solving complex business problems that have massive global impact. You and your team of engineers will take a well-established catalog orchestration platform into its next chapter evolving it to integrate ML and LLM-powered services that enrich validate and improve the catalog while navigating the unique architectural challenges these workloads bring at Amazons scale. This is an opportunity to have significant influence on the technical strategy and delivery of Amazons key initiatives like expansion to new countries new languages new physical stores new product lines and so on.

Your breadth of impact will range from how sellers and vendors list their products with Amazons catalog to how products move through Amazons fulfillment centers and to how our shopping customers find and discover the products they love!

As an SDM you are empowered to:
- Own the technical vision strategy planning and prioritization for evolving the catalog orchestration platform driving architectural decisions and end-to-end delivery as the system adapts to new classes of workloads.
- Identify assess and mitigate risks provide escalation management anticipate tradeoffs and balance business needs against technical constraints.
- Create maintain and disseminate project information to stakeholders; drive alignment across engineering science and product teams.
- Manage and grow a team of talented engineers making great hiring decisions setting goals providing feedback and managing performance.
- Develop best practices to build and operate critical catalog platform services that handle both traditional low-latency workloads and ML-powered processing at scale.


- 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 CA Sunnyvale - 212700.00 - 287700.00 USD annually