Are you looking for the opportunity to define the architecture and technical direction of a critical component of Amazon’s eCommerce Platform? Do you enjoy shouldering the responsibilities of a technical leader and mentoring junior engineers?
Our team is responsible for managing Datapath platform, a foundational platform that is core to Amazon’s eCommerce business. Amazon customers using Kindle, Prime, Instant Video, Fulfillment, or just shopping online, depend on a highly available server backend provided by the Datapath platform. Engineers on the Datapath team design, build, and maintain highly scalable distributed systems that execute business logic, authored by teams across Amazon, millions of times per second in real-time.
Our team supports the operational and tooling needs of this massively scaled, high performance, reliable and cost effective data-centric platform. Our mission is to enable the business to do interesting things with data at scale and liberate application developers from the burden of managing their storage and compute needs.
As a DevOps Manager, you will be responsible for leading and driving operational and engineering excellence. You will have strong customer and operational focus, ability to understand and deep dive cross functional and inter dependent teams to eliminate the technical debt. You will also be responsible for working closely with other managers of software development teams to improve their systems. Your solutions will impact our customers directly! High impact production issues often requires coordination between multiple Development, Operations and IT support groups, so you get to experience a breadth of impact with various groups.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Bangalore, KA, IND
A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or five or more years of work experience in System development as an equivalent.
- Experience with project delivery for large, cross-functional projects
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Possesses excellent business judgment, strong written and oral communication skills, and practical approach for getting things done
- Experience in driving adoption of program management best practices
- A passion for data-driven decision-making
Preferred- Experience in building partnership’s across different teams in the organizations.
- Experience in delivering on multi-year product road maps.
- Hires and develops great people.
- Hands-on technical expertise.
- Demonstrable track record dealing well with ambiguity, prioritizing needs, and delivering measurable results in a dynamic environment.
- Demonstrated skill and passion for operational excellence.
- Technical aptitude to quickly grasp complex technical issues and communicate directly with technical teams.