Are you passionate about offering customers Earth's biggest selection? Do you want to play a key role in building innovative solutions to drive authoritative selection on Amazon? Do you have a high sense of ownership and the ability to create end to end solutions for complex problems? If so, Amazon's Selection Monitoring team has an opportunity for you.

Opportunity

Amazon's Selection Monitoring team is responsible for making the biggest catalog on the planet even bigger. We build software to find products not already sold on Amazon and algorithmically add them to the Amazon catalog. Our work involves building state-of-the-art Information Retrieval (IR) systems, extracting structured-data from unstructured-content, automatic item classification, storage systems to hold the massive catalog and distributed systems of cloud-scale. We apply the state-of-the-art parallel processing, machine learning and deep learning algorithms to evaluate millions of products every day and to identify and prioritize new additions to Amazon's selection efficiently. If you are customer obsessed, dedicated, tenacious and love analyzing huge amount of data, you will have fun solving our technical and business problems of unprecedented scale. In this role, you will build and lead a series of features with engineering team impacting Programs across multiple Amazon teams with the goals of making the most important selection available for our customers. You will work with software and business teams around the company to identify and deploy innovative solutions that achieve the business objective. Come join us in our journey to make everything - and yes, we do mean *everything* - that anyone wants to buy, available on Amazon!

Our environment is fast-paced and requires a candidate who is flexible, detail-oriented, thrives on ambiguity, and can drive results across cross-functional groups. The ideal candidate will have excellent software development, people management, technical skills, problem solving and communication skills and be comfortable interacting with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels. The candidate should have a history of proven people management, driving cross functional software development, ability to draw deep insights from complex data and the ability to influence and write compelling technical and business documents and drive outcomes for senior leadership at Amazon.

The ability to influence cross functionally and across the organization, at all levels, will be absolutely critical to success in this role.

About the team

We are based in the Seattle, USA and Chennai, India, to build solutions to make selection management for Brand Owners easier on Amazon. To achieve this, we automate the listing process and enable brand owners to manage and protect their catalog through brand owner exclusive tools and experiences.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA, USA

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 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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