The Amazon Search team owns the software that powers Search - a critical customer-focused feature of Amazon.com. Whenever you visit an Amazon site anywhere in the world, it's our technology that delivers you outstanding search results. Our services are used by millions of Amazon customers every day.

Key job responsibilities
The Search Engine Infrastructure team is responsible for the large-scale distributed systems that power those results. We design, build and operate high performance fault tolerant services that apply the latest technologies to solve customer problems. As part of this vision, we are building the infrastructure to build the next generation of indexing systems that solve a wide range of problems, ranging from Product Search to Conversational Shopping. We focus on high availability, frugally ingesting many petabytes of data per day via bulk and streaming APIs, with strict freshness guarantees. We work with technical and organizational leaders across multiple Amazon teams to make this happen.

A day in the life
On an average day, you will:

1. Be responsible for the development life cycle of a key component of our search ingestion engine.
2. Engage with teams across Amazon to evangelize the team and projects, build relationships and help identify existing technologies to meet your team’s goals.
3. Manage and execute against project plans and delivery commitments.
4. Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team.
5. Ensure that design and architecture decisions by your team meet goals and vision of the search service.
6. Manage resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team.
7. Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach.
8. Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management.
9. Responsible for operations of the systems.

About the team
Joining this team, you will experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment, while leveraging the resources of Amazon.com (AMZN), one of the world's leading internet companies. We provide a highly customer-centric, team-oriented environment in our offices located in Palo Alto, California, with a team in San Francisco, California.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 5+ 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 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 $166,400/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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