Define technical vision and architecture for systems serving millions of customers across Amazon Website, mobile Apps, Kindle, Fire TV, and web clients
Drive Operational Excellence by establishing engineering best practices, defining on-call strategies, and ensuring high availability and reliability of services
Partner with product management and cross-functional engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical roadmaps and deliverables
Mentor, coach, and grow engineering talent through regular 1:1s, career development planning, and performance management
Own end-to-end delivery of projects from design through deployment, ensuring quality, scalability, and customer impact
Influence organizational strategy by collaborating with senior leadership across Amazon Music to align on goals and priorities
Drive a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, encouraging the team to experiment, iterate, and raise the bar for customers
Make sound technical and business judgement calls, balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term architectural investments
Recruit and hire top engineering talent to build a high-performing, diverse team
A day in the life
Making trade-off decisions between speed-to-market and long-term technical investment
Influencing peer SDMs and senior leadership on cross-org priorities
Removing blockers for your team so they can stay in flow
Thinking about how to measure and improve customer engagement, retention, and acquisition through technology
Balancing "keep the lights on" operational work with innovation and experimentation
7+ years of engineering experience
3+ years of engineering team management 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
Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
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
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