Manager, Search Capacity, Amazon Search

Saved job description

The Amazon Search team creates customer-focused search solutions and technologies. Whenever a customer visits an Amazon site worldwide and types in a query or browses through product categories, Amazon Search service go to work. We design, develop, and deploy high performance, fault-tolerant, distributed search systems used by millions of Amazon customers every day.

Key job responsibilities

As the manager of the Search Capacity team, you will lead a team of talented business intelligence engineers, data scientists, and technical program mangers with the following responsibilities.

* Scale the Amazon Search service by working closely with service owners in engineering and operations to understand the service in depth and drive optimal scaling and computational capacity planning.

* Identify and track key performance metrics around efficiency and costs.

* Manage planning, ordering, and budgeting for hardware and other computational resources.

* Develop and improve tools for automating the foregoing responsibilities wherever possible.

* Analyze resource utilization and performance test data to identify variables impacting performance and scalability. Develop models for required hardware resources to meet current and future SLAs.

Requirements: - Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or Bachelor's degree or equivalent and 2+ years of a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, data science, business analytics, economics, finance, engineering, or computer science experience

- 3+ years of people management and team development experience

- Experience in scripting for automation (e.g. Python) and advanced SQL skills.

- Experience with data visualization using Tableau, Quicksight, or similar tools

- Experience in technical leadership of large, complex initiatives, and delivering critical solutions, significant improvements, or new mechanisms