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Amazon Software Development Manager, Content Systems in Seattle, Washington

Description

Are you passionate about providing an epic experience for every interaction customers have with Amazon?

We own the largest content marketing system at Amazon driving billions of dollars through marketing sales and Prime memberships. We power content to millions of customers through Amazon website, mobile, email, and other devices across shopping, streaming and reading experiences.

As a Software Development Manager for Content Systems, you will be responsible for leading a team of engineers in the design, development, testing, and deployment of large-scale systems that handle billions of requests daily. We are building the next generation of content marketing systems to further scale up our business impact. You will have direct ownership over the design and architecture of new components, focusing on enhancing the platform's extensibility, scalability, availability, and latency.

A successful candidate will possess an established background in engineering management, strong technical abilities, excellent project management skills, outstanding communication abilities, experience in engineering hiring, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

If you interested in driving high impact delivery, are deeply technical, highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you!

Key job responsibilities

  • Responsible for the overall systems development life cycle

  • Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments aligning with business

  • Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment

  • Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team

  • Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach

  • Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

  • 3+ years of engineering team management experience

  • 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

  • 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams 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

Preferred Qualifications

  • 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

  • Master's degree, or Bachelor's degree

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $148,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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