Software Development Manager, Core Search

The Search Engine organization designs builds and operates highly performant fault-tolerant and scalable distributed search engine used by millions of Amazon customers worldwide every day.

We are evolving our search engine to better understand natural language queries and to be more personalized. This involves leveraging LLMs and other Deep Learning models in different parts of the search stack to improve the search experience.

Ideal candidates are expected to have an extensive background in distributed systems and experience with machine learning infrastructure. Strong candidates will have knowledge of LLM fundamentals and some experience in GPU programming.

Key job responsibilities
Technical Leadership
- Lead development of LLM/deep-learning relevance and ranking systems serving billions of queries at scale
- Improve search engine efficiency to reduce infrastructure cost
- Drive architecture and design decisions aligned with the search org vision
- Own full development and operations lifecycle of your teams products

Team & People Management
- Manage engineering team: staffing day-to-day execution delivery commitments and mentoring and career growth
- Report on development progress quality operations and system performance

Strategy & Collaboration
- Define long-term vision and growth plans in partnership with Science and Engineering leaders
- Set development priorities and evangelize the teams work across the org

- 5 years of engineering team management experience
- 10 years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 8 years of developing large-scale multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming 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 delivering products against plan in a fast-paced multi-disciplined distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment

- 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
- Experience in written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders
- Deep familiarity with the ML/DL infrastructure space and technologies and experience owning large-scale low-latency distributed systems that deploy and run ML models

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 Palo Alto - 212700.00 - 287700.00 USD annually