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Have you ever wondered how Amazon predicts when your order will arrive and how we ensure that it actually arrives on at the promised date/time? Have you wondered where all those Amazon semi-trucks on the road are headed? Are you passionate about increasing efficiency and reducing carbon footprint? Does the idea of having worldwide impact on Amazon’s logistics network including our planes, trucks, and vans sound exciting to you? If so, then we want to talk with you! At Amazon’s Fulfillment Optimization, we are tasked with optimizing the fulfillment on customer orders so that we fulfill all orders worldwide in the most intelligent manner while ensuring Amazon customers get their orders on time.
The Transportation Volume Planning team owns and operates ML and simulation systems that continually optimize the distribution of tens of millions of products across Amazon’s warehouses in the most cost-effective manner, utilizing large scale optimization techniques and distributed computing in trying to reduce overall transportation costs while improving the customer experience. We are focused on saving hundreds of millions of dollars using big data technologies, cutting edge science, machine learning, and scalable distributed software on the cloud that automates and optimizes inventory and shipments to customers under the uncertainty of demand, pricing and supply.
We’re looking for a passionate and results-oriented Software Development Manager who enjoys the challenge of diving into complex problems and solving the unsolvable to drive the key decisions. The person will lead the team of Software Development Engineers to develop large scale, fault tolerant and high availability systems.
Watch http://bit.ly/amazon-scot to get the big picture.
Key job responsibilities

In this role you will…

• Collaborate with and influence a wide set of stakeholders, providing thought leadership, product expertise, and technical insight.
• Work across Transportation teams, PMs, Engineers, Scientists, BIEs, Finance, and SCOT teams to establish the network planning Roadmap.
• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• Create solutions to run predictions/optimizations on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
• Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
• Manage, mentor and grow a team of SDEs

A day in the life
Every day you’ll work with your direct SDEs, teams within Fulfillment Optimization and planning and stakeholders across Amazon’s Supply Chain. You will set the tone through measurable goals, drive career growth for employees, and build strong relationships with peers and stakeholders to continue to improve and innovate on how we help customers use flow and capacity plans more effectively and build new solutions to enable better solutions for customers.
About the team
The Transportation Volume Planning team is part of the Fulfillment Optimization org and owns optimization and simulation systems to guide Amazon’s outbound capacity planning. The team is currently spread across Seattle, Austin, TX, and New York City. The team is multi-disciplined comprising of research science, business intelligence, and software development. Come join us as we fundamentally redesign our approach to Amazon first-party fulfillment.
Watch this video to learn more about our organization,
SCOT: http://bit.ly/amazon-scot

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 an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
  Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
  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

• Collaborate with and influence a wide set of stakeholders, providing thought leadership, product expertise, and technical insight.
• Work across Transportation teams, PMs, Engineers, Scientists, BIEs, Finance, and SCOT teams to establish the network planning Roadmap.
• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• Create solutions to run predictions/optimizations on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
• Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
• Manage, mentor and grow a team of SDE