Software Development Manager, Amazon Selection Monitoring

Amazons Selection Monitoring team is responsible for making the biggest catalog on the planet even bigger. Our systems process billions of products to algorithmically find products not already sold on Amazon and programmatically add them to the Amazon catalog. We apply distributed processing machine learning and LLMs to identify and prioritize products and brands we should add to Amazons catalog. Teams across Amazon worldwide consume our datasets and systems to improve: product information search and discoverability pricing and delivery experience. Our work involves building LLM based systems to mine the web and automatically create structured entities from un-structure/semi-structured data. We constantly stretch the boundaries of large-scale distributed systems Elastic Computing and Big Data to tackle challenges at Amazons global scale.
Come join us in our journey to make everything and yes we do mean *everything* that anyone wants to buy available on Amazon!
We are looking for a Software Development Manager (SDM) to tackle difficult problems in the areas of distributed systems efficient large-scale data processing data dependency and flow control systems flexible and serverless compute with impact across Amazon. This is a tremendous opportunity for SDMs who want to lead and grow a team of talented SDEs to build a reliable and scalable solutions to enhance selection for our customers.

Key job responsibilities
- Partner with Principal Engineers and Product and Program Management to define and grow the technical and architectural vision for Selection Monitorings mission-critical systems driving the brand and product experience on Amazon.
- Deliver and own scalable fault-tolerant and highly available services that underpin our large-scale data processing solutions.
- Build and own systems for Data discovery and lifecycle management of hundreds of datasets spanning several Petabytes.
- Develop solutions to efficiently deploy and orchestrate hundreds of application flows across a hybrid set of compute environments.
- Utilize serverless and container technologies to build next-gen scalable compute layer solutions.
- Build and grow a team of high performing SDEs and be responsible and invested in career growth of your team members.
- Drive operational excellence initiative and continuously improve quality bar for software delivered by the team.

- 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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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 Seattle - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually