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Description

Are you interested in leading a team to build scalable, state-of-the-art web crawling systems that underpin Amazon’s most critical programs? Do you thrive on working with engineers and scientists to develop innovative solutions to complex technical challenges?

Amazon is looking for a Senior Manager to lead our Web Crawler team within the AGI Web Information Services (WIS) group. This team plays a vital role in information retrieval (IR), supporting key customer experiences across Amazon. The WIS team is dedicated to reinventing efficient web crawler for a multi-modal future at scale, enabling customers to interact with unstructured and semi-structured content through question answering, summarization, search, and multi-turn dialogues. As the Senior Manager, you will provide strategic oversight, drive performance optimization, and mentor a growing team, ensuring our web crawler service meets its critical role in Amazon’s ecosystem.

Key job responsibilities

• Hire and develop the best. You will help grow and develop a team of engineers, growing their careers and empowering them to achieve amazing things.

• Set a vision for your team and create product roadmaps. Help your team identify technical and product requirements and opportunities. Use project management and prioritization skills to balance long and short-term goals and deliver on your product roadmap.

• Keep your technical skills current to contribute to architecture and design discussions. Lead your team to evolve and scale our service architecture.

• Drive continual improvements: Set and iteratively improve team processes and mechanisms to make sure the right things get prioritized and work gets done efficiently.

A day in the life

A mix of helping the team architect our systems for massive scale, collaborating with science and customers to define product requirements and structure our roadmap, establishing the bar for operational excellence, driving efficiency in our software development processes, career coaching and mentorship, collaborating with sister teams, and interviewing.

About the team

Our team is a mix of software engineers and applied scientists building a scalable, state-of-the-art web crawler system supporting capability to crawl the entire web. Our members are geographically distributed across the west coast, but we’re highly collaborative.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience

• 5+ years of engineering team management experience

• 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience

• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

• Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience partnering with product and program management teams

• Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications

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.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $198,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $342,300/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.