Amazon Software Development Manager Item Data Services 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

443702067

Key job responsibilities
1. Drive technical vision and architecture making strategic decisions that balance innovation with operational excellence
2. Manage stakeholder communications and project visibility across organizations
3. Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team through effective hiring, mentoring, and career development while fostering an inclusive Agile/Scrum environment
4. Own end-to-end delivery, including planning, execution, and metric-driven success measurement
5. Balance business requirements against technical constraints
6. Establish robust monitoring, alerting, and automation systems to maintain operational excellence and manage technical debt effectively
7. Create and optimize feedback loops with Selling Partners to drive sustained data quality improvements across global marketplaces
8. Drive technical innovation through complex distributed systems design, ML/AI implementation and continuous process improvement
9. Establish technical best practices for critical catalog platform services

- 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

- 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