Software Development Manager, Off-Amazon Selection

Lead and grow a team of software engineers building internet-scale catalog discovery and commerce systems for Off-Amazon Selection (OAS). You will own the technical vision roadmap and operational excellence for distributed systems that make the worlds selection discoverable and shoppable. Partnering with Applied Scientists youll apply Large Language Models and generative AI to build intelligent primitives that transform how customers discover evaluate and purchase products across Amazon surfaces. Youll recruit and develop engineers drive architecture in ambiguous problem spaces and deliver robust scalable systems at Amazon scale while earning trust with product science and partner engineering teams.

Key job responsibilities
In this role you will build lead and grow a high-performing team of software engineers setting a high bar for quality and for the engineers you hire mentor and develop at every level. You will own the technical vision roadmap and architecture for distributed catalog discovery and commerce systems at internet scale pioneering AI-native software development and partnering closely with Applied Scientists to build intelligent primitives that change how customers discover evaluate and purchase products. You will own the full software development life cycle from design through deployment and operational excellence driving services at Amazon scale with instrumented health signals so issues are caught early and decisions are data driven. Most of all you will thrive where problems are not yet well defined turning ambiguous cross team challenges into clear plans with owners and dates and earning the trust of product science and partner engineering teams along the way. It is a rare chance to shape both the systems and the team that make the worlds selection discoverable and shoppable for customers everywhere.

A day in the life
As SDM for Off-Amazon Selection no two days look the same. You might unblock an engineer on a catalog ingestion design then join a working session with Applied Scientists on how an LLM-powered capabilities handles product matching at scale. You will review design docs weigh in on architectural trade-offs and sequence a multi-quarter roadmap against ambiguous requirements. You will invest in your people through 1:1s career conversations hiring and coaching.

About the team
Off-Amazon Selection builds the next generation of catalog discovery and commerce systems that make the worlds selection discoverable and shoppable for customers. We work at the intersection of distributed systems and applied science using machine learning and generative AI to solve problems at scale. We think in terms of durable primitives and mechanisms rather than one-off features building for scale reliability and reuse. We are a collaborative high-ownership team that values camaraderie diverse perspectives and a strong engineering culture and we tackle ambiguous challenging problems together.

- 3 years of engineering team management experience
- 7 years of engineering experience
- 8 years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- 1 years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
- 1 years of developing large-scale multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java C# or C experience
- 1 years of developing large-scale multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture experience
- 1 years of developing large-scale multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience
- 5 years of Software Engineer Software Developer or related occupational experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- 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 recruiting hiring mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective product software engineers
- Experience in communicating with users other technical teams and senior leadership to collect requirements describe software product features technical designs and product strategy

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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