Software Development Manager, Geospatial

About the role

Build the routing engine behind every Amazon delivery. Planet-scale pathfinding that runs a trillion route calculations a day at microsecond latency, shaping how millions of packages reach customers safely and on time, every day.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers who own road network construction and vending, pathfinding, and transit time estimation for Amazon Last Mile.
• Partner with Planning systems teams who solve the Traveling Salesman Problem at very high throughput, and own the API contracts and accuracy bar those solvers depend on.
• Work with Safety teams on routing and path-risk accuracy.
• Partner with Science teams on the models behind time estimation and integrate those models into production routing.
• Owning transit time estimation quality end to end, including planned-versus-actual analysis and the underestimation and overestimation that drive downstream planning and customer promise.
• Manage technical roadmaps that balance new capability against the operational excellence a Tier-1 service demands.
• Develop engineering talent and build a deep, resilient team with clear technical ownership.
• Write narratives and influence VP-level technical decisions.

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
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

Qualifications

• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.