Description

Amazon's Zeitgeist team is the authoritative voice on what millions of Amazon customers are doing right now. Features that we own include Purchase Insights (ex: 100+ bought in past month), Sales Rank, Amazon’s Best Sellers lists and #1 Bestseller badge, Trending product lists and Movers and Shakers; not only are these features are used by millions of customers each day to discover new products and navigate Amazon’s massive selection, they’re famous enough to have their own entry on Amazon’s Wikipedia article.

We build systems to harness the collective intelligence found in the billions of interactions that happen on our global family of websites. Our algorithms seek out the most useful aggregate patterns amongst an enormous sea of noise. These patterns are then made available to the shopping customer who benefits from the experience of millions of customers who came before them.

Our systems operate at massive scale. Our computational statistics and data mining algorithms are able to process billions of transactions made by hundreds of millions of customers on a catalog with hundreds of millions of items. Our systems are responsive – customers want to know what’s happening on Amazon right now, not yesterday or last week. The online services which vend our data get billions of requests per day. That's tens of thousands of requests per second, every second of every day. And, we do it all with a lot less hardware than you think; we take pride in the efficiency of our systems.

We’re end-to-end owners; the Zeitgeist team owns the entire implementation of our features from front-end rendering to online services to data processing algorithms. We experiment relentlessly to learn how best to serve Amazon’s customer, whether through new ways to present the results of our current algorithms, new algorithms to identify useful customer patterns, or both together.

We're seeking a skilled and creative software manager to help invent the future of product discovery.

Key job responsibilities

• Experience building large-scale data mining systems

• Experience with algorithm development involving real-world noisy data

• Experience mentoring and training others on complex technical issues

• Proven ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project

• Sharp analytical abilities, proven design skills, excellent communication skills, and an ability to pick up new technical skills quickly

• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive, and a track record of delivery

• Passion for building new products in a fast paced, team-oriented environment.

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.