Software Development Manager,

1 month ago


Palo Alto, California, United States Amazon Full time

Amazon's product search indexes hundreds of millions of products and serves hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. We are looking for a product engineer with experience in machine learning and deep learning systems to join our search team as we look to understand the semantic meanings of customer queries and assist customers to fulfill their shopping missions. This is an opportunity to develop cutting-edge machine learning (ML) algorithms to perform Natural Language Understanding and build a top-tier distributed service to serve the algorithms at Amazon scale.

As the manager of the team, you will hire, manage, mentor and grow a high performance team of Software Engineers; provide technical expertise and leadership throughout engineering and science best practices and influence software engineers to develop high quality products; work with engineers to define technical requirements and architect and execute best-in-class implementations in agile manner; build and maintain world-class customer experience and operational excellence for your deliverable.

You will love this role because you will: (1) work on a world-class Query Understanding service that is an important component of Amazon Product Search; (2) learn state-of-the-art AWS, natural language processing, and machine learning technologies and figure out creative ways to make these work at production scale; (3) have the opportunity to work with a dynamic team to define and develop innovative solutions that will have a direct impact on Amazon product search; (4) closely interact with applied scientists to apply research to production and publish papers in top conferences; (5) work with large data sets to analyze and improve the search experience using various AWS technologies; (6) have access to Amazon's vast technical resources to get the job done.

Basic Qualifications

  • 3+ years of engineering team management experience
  • 7+ years of engineering 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

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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.




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