Manager III, Software Development, SCOT-Fulfillment Optimization, Outbound Optimization
About The Position
Join the Fulfillment Optimization team and help drive optimization of Amazon's outbound volume for maximized flow efficiency! You will be leading systems that calibrate continuous optimization of Amazon package flow, handle hundreds of millions of orders per week globally, capture and visualize big data from the order and shipment flow, and simulate what-if scenarios that help make billion dollar decisions. Today, Amazon fulfillment network faces new challenges associated with faster-than-ever speeds, and higher-than-ever volumes. Amazon fulfills most of orders using First Party network resources, which represent sunk cost investment that needs to be utilized to the full. This calls for a shift from myopic problem of per-package assignment to solving global optimality problems, sometimes resulting in making intelligent suboptimal choices locally for the sake of globally optimal network that follows a well-coordinated system built around a consistent set of goals. This space requires a high level of strategy, engagement, execution, and operations to evolve the fulfillment capabilities for the next decade and solve 21st century problems with 21st century technologies. This initiative is fundamental to Amazon’s future success, and will provide great personal satisfaction and career development as we tackle some of the most intriguing transportation problems. The perfect candidate will thrive outside of defined role guidelines, practice bar-raising ownership, make sacrifices to achieve strategic success, elevate their subordinates, manage upwards, and be able to explain their space to a 5-year-old.
Requirements
- 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
Nice To Haves
- 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
Responsibilities
- Deliver Results: Define responsibilities and expectations regularly. Enable team to produce exceptional results. Hold individuals accountable for both what they do and how they do it. Pursue goals despite setbacks. Cut through the dense details and make continuous and meaningful progress.
- Think Big: Create environment to encourage innovation and calculated risk taking. Create strategies to balance short-term requirements with long-range business plans. Identify efforts that will have the greatest strategic impact. Act on business opportunities. Use operational and financial information to monitor performance.
- Dive deep: Analyze all types of information (numerical / written etc.). Integrate information from a variety of resources and perspectives. Clearly define complex issues despite incomplete or ambiguous information. Identify underlying issues and root causes of problems. Weigh pros and cons of different solutions, often with incomplete data.
- Continuously partnering with product and science partners to perform and review science experimentations.
- Innovate in mathematical optimization algorithms that you own.
- Roll out new experiments in a controlled fashion and iterate quickly over treatment-and-control scenarios.
- Own high scale optimizer and simulator systems that are critical for continuous business operations and insights.
- Help bring the right data to support or challenge hypotheses, and ideate on new experiments and optimization opportunities that can help improve flow control, or bring new insights into where opportunities are lurking.
- Partner across multiple teams to perform game days and scale systems for Amazon big sale events, and peak purchasing periods.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
- Maternity and Parental Leave Options
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 401(k) Plan
- health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance)
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
- Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP)
- paid time off
- other resources to improve health and well-being
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
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