Software Development Manager

Description
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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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USA, CA, San Luis Obispo - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually