If you’re a software engineering leader who is looking to lead a team where our engineers are eager to brainstorm, mentor, and get software built at global scale. For Amazon to have the world’s largest selection, we need to discover and understand the global e-commerce landscape. We need to understand the universe of products that is available in the world, which products customers want, and who can supply these products. The mission of Selection Monitoring (SM) is to know all facts about all selection external to Amazon.
What is in it for you?
· Huge impact: Work on a service that will be used, directly and indirectly, by millions of customers.
· Gratification: You will know you are solving problems most software developers don’t yet know exist.
· Ownership: you will quickly become responsible for key components of the service.
· Learn & Innovate: You will learn about challenges to gather, extract and/or build knowledge out of peta-bytes of loosely structured data across globe
· Have fun: Surround yourself with engineers that like to solve complex problems, but also work in a fun environment.
Key job responsibilities
Build a high performance team while maintaining a high bar for quality.
Hire, coach, and mentor colleagues; build a strong cross-functional organization and care about developing people.
Create, execute product/technical roadmaps and project plans
Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to senior leadership
Work closely with senior engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
Foster culture of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
Own all operational metrics and support
Set clear, measurable quality goals for your organization in a data-led way- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management 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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