Software Development Manager

Amazon • San Luis Obispo, CA

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About The Position

We're looking for a Software Development Manager to lead the TriPOD team within
MOD Tech, part of the Kindle Ingestion Experience (KIX) organization. TriPOD
owns end-to-end content ingestion technology for Print on Demand (POD) across
both Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) and Kindle Enterprise Publishing (KEP),
serving independent authors and enterprise publishers worldwide. The team also
owns the backend for Look Inside the Book (LITB), the feature that lets
customers preview and search books on Amazon.

Key job responsibilities
As the engineering leader for TriPOD, you will manage a team of ~20 engineers
across three squads (SPOON, FoRK, and KNIFE), plus support engineering and QA.
You'll own the technical direction, team health, and delivery for systems that
span content ingestion, book metadata, royalty processing, accounting,
reporting, and international marketplace expansion. You will partner closely
with Product, TPM, and business leadership to set the team's strategy and ensure
we continue to deliver the best publishing experience for authors and publishers
globally.

A day in the life
- Lead, coach, and grow a team of SDEs
- Own the technical vision and roadmap for POD publishing infrastructure,
working closely with Product, TPM, and business stakeholders
- Drive operational excellence for systems that directly impact author/publisher
revenue (royalty processing, accounting, payments)
- Partner with POD manufacturing systems, fulfillment networks, and
financial/payments systems to ensure reliable end-to-end data flow
- Improve publishing workflows that pushes POD data to Amazon Detail Pages and
catalog/inventory systems
- Champion best practices including code quality, testing, operational
readiness, and on-call health
- Collaborate with peer SDMs to align on org-wide technical strategy 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

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

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of SDEs
• Own the technical vision and roadmap for POD publishing infrastructure, working closely with Product, TPM, and business stakeholders
• Drive operational excellence for systems that directly impact author/publisher revenue (royalty processing, accounting, payments)
• Partner with POD manufacturing systems, fulfillment networks, and financial/payments systems to ensure reliable end-to-end data flow
• Improve publishing workflows that pushes POD data to Amazon Detail Pages and catalog/inventory systems
• Champion best practices including code quality, testing, operational readiness, and on-call health
• Collaborate with peer SDMs to align on org-wide technical strategy

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed