Software Development Manager, Amazon

• The ideal candidate will strive for simplicity, demonstrate creativity, high judgment, ability to inspire people, and set the high bar of engineering quality and execution.
• This opportunity requires excellent technical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• The candidate is not just a policy maker/spokesperson but drives to get the right things done. At the core of the position is delivery, qualified candidates have strong experience in building, launching and operating technology products at scale
• 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

Desirable

• We are looking for a Software Development Manager (SDM) with a strong sense of ownership and a passion for delivering creative solutions for complex problems on an unprecedented scale.
• This leader will own multiple products (mix of greenfield and non-greenfield) supporting the localization needs of our advertisers.
• You will manage the team engineers, have an opportunity to shape the culture and organizational design, lead the teams towards solving complex problems that would be "firsts" for Amazon, and partner close with scientists on Machine Learning in the areas of text, image and video localization.
• This is an opportunity to come in at the ground floor for what has become a core part of the overall Amazon business strategy