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Amazon’s eCommerce Foundation (eCF) organization is responsible for the core
components that drive the Amazon website and customer experience, serving
millions of customer page views and orders per day.
As an organization within eCF, the Business Data Technology (BDT) group is no
exception. BDT organization is at the center of Amazon’s data-driven culture,
with responsibility for the business analytics platform, providing data and data
curation capabilities to thousands of internal and external customers worldwide.
We are looking for an innovative engineering manager to own, build, and grow
multiple BDT solutions. In this role, you will grow and lead a team that will
design, develop, test, and operate large scale distributed systems that fulfill
critical business functions with impact across Amazon. As a member of the BDT
leadership team you will help set and meet goals and you will shape our long
term technical and business strategy.
In this strategic, high-visibility role you will lead your team of high
performing engineers to build, scale, monitor, and optimize the software
solutions for AWS cloud. We are looking for a hands-on SDM with an established
background in developing high volume and highly available services, strong
technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve
results in a dynamic fast paced environment.
Key job responsibilities
Working backwards from the customer translation complex functional and technical
requirements into detailed architecture and design.
Deliver systems and features on schedule with high quality
Stay current on technical knowledge to keep pace with rapidly changing
technology, and work with the team in bringing new technologies on board
Mentor of junior engineers
Work across teams to drive overall technical strategy
A day in the life
Build a best-in-class engineering team that delivers excellent results through
rapid iterations
- Design and develop state-of-the-art approaches to solving complex and
ambiguous big data problems
- Cultivate engineering and operational excellence through metrics and
continuous learning
- Provide thought leadership and establish technical vision for the team
- Mentor and grow high performing SDEs to take on increasingly higher
responsibilities
- Think big and work with Senior leadership, business stakeholders and
engineering teams to define vision, strategy and requirements.
- Own all metrics around initiative goals you will define. We make decisions
based on data.
- Manage the agile development process and methodology to deliver tech
requirements on time and with a high-degree of precision.
This is a role suitable for someone who wants to influence across organizations,
work on high profile, high impact initiatives that impact Amazon's bottom line.
Basic Qualifications: - 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 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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis
of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our
customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or
adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the
interview or onboarding process, please visit
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contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary for this position ranges from $171,400/year up to $286,200/year.
Salary is based on a number of factors 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.
Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
