Software Development Manager, Project Dawn
Seattle, WA - USA
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Job Summary
This role sits at a genuinely hard frontier: applying large language models and hybrid extraction strategies to the inconsistent structure of millions of e-commerce websites while maintaining the reliability and throughput requirements of a production catalog system. The right extraction approach varies by merchant by platform and by the maturity of the science models your team hosts and serves and navigating those tradeoffs in real time at scale is one side of the challenge. The other is guiding the team through the internal complexity of Amazons catalog the data contracts ingestion standards quality thresholds and partner system requirements that govern whether extracted merchant data successfully becomes discoverable purchasable selection for customers. This role sits at the boundary between web-scale extraction and Amazons catalog infrastructure and engineering judgment on both sides is required.
You will collaborate with Science and Product partners in the Selection & Coverage pod own the infrastructure that hosts and deploys extraction models in production and be the engineering owner of OASs selection coverage strategy.
Key job responsibilities
* Lead hire and develop a team of software development engineers across multiple workstreams maintaining a high engineering bar and a culture of ownership
* Collaborate with Science and Product partners in the OAS Offers org align on workstream prioritization and surface engineering tradeoffs that need leadership input
* Translate Science team model improvements into production-ready systems and establish repeatable deployment pipelines that reduce time-to-production for new model checkpoints
* Set and own the engineering delivery roadmap against committed KPI ramp targets; identify risks early and provide clear path-to-green or escalation when milestones are at risk
* Make and document active engineering tradeoffs when to run strategies in parallel vs. sequence them how to balance near-term funnel loss recovery against strategic infrastructure investments
* Define and maintain operational excellence standards for extraction infrastructure: availability latency data quality and cost efficiency
- 3 years of engineering team management experience
- 7 years of engineering experience
- 7 years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- 3 years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- 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
- Experience productionizing machine learning models specifically building the infrastructure that hosts serves and deploys models in production in partnership with Applied Science teams
- Familiarity with web-scale crawling data extraction or content ingestion systems
- Experience with LLM-based applications in production including prompt management output validation and latency/cost tradeoffs
- Prior experience managing teams that work at the intersection of rule-based and model-based systems
- Experience building systems on AWS (ECS SageMaker Bedrock Glue) at production scale
- Demonstrated experience running a metric-driven team committing to KPI ramps reporting against them honestly and identifying the engineering levers that move the number
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually
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