Software Development Manager, Geospatial

Amazon; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Bellevue is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the Transit Intelligence team responsible for road network construction, vending, pathfinding, and transit time estimation at massive scale. You will drive end-to-end routing quality, collaborate with planning, safety, and science teams, and mentor a growing engineering organization.

The role demands overseeing low-latency navigation with high-throughput planning, shaping choices that impact customer delivery

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
• 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

Responsibilities

• Leading a team of software engineers who own road network construction and vending, pathfinding, and transit time estimation for Amazon Last Mile.
• Partnering with Planning systems teams who solve the Traveling Salesman Problem at very high throughput, and owning the API contracts and accuracy bar those solvers depend on.
• Working with Safety teams on routing and path-risk accuracy.
• Partnering with Science teams on the models behind time estimation and integrating 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.
• Managing technical roadmaps that balance new capability against the operational excellence a Tier-1 service demands.
• Developing engineering talent and building a deep, resilient team with clear technical ownership.
• Writing narratives and influencing VP-level technical decisions.

Skills

Engineering team management

Hands-on engineering

System design

Code reviews

Job description

DESCRIPTION

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.

We're seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the Transit Intelligence team in Bellevue. The team owns the road network and routing foundation for Amazon Last Mile: road network construction and vending, pathfinding and transit time estimation. These systems compute how long it takes to get from A to B and what the safest path is, at two extremes of scale at once. Navigation needs answers in milliseconds in real time; route planning needs the full origin-by-destination product, adding up to over 1.2 trillion pathfinding calculations across the fleet each day.

The SDM will lead a team of software engineers building the algorithms and infrastructure behind this scale: effective precomputation, succinct graph representations and the caching, sharding, and vending strategies that turn a continent-scale road graph into microsecond lookups. SDM will be responsible for logic in service that fuses real-time traffic with historical movement profiles and returns time, distance, and a path risk signal, so the routes it produces optimize for safety alongside speed. The role requires someone who can hold both the low-latency navigation workload and the high-throughput planning workload in view at once.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading a team of software engineers who own road network construction and vending, pathfinding, and transit time estimation for Amazon Last Mile.
• Partnering with Planning systems teams who solve the Traveling Salesman Problem at very high throughput, and owning the API contracts and accuracy bar those solvers depend on.
• Working with Safety teams on routing and path-risk accuracy.
• Partnering with Science teams on the models behind time estimation and integrating 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.
• Managing technical roadmaps that balance new capability against the operational excellence a Tier-1 service demands.
• Developing engineering talent and building a deep, resilient team with clear technical ownership.
• Writing narratives and influencing VP-level technical decisions.

The Team

The Transit Intelligence team owns the road network and routing foundation for Amazon, spanning across Last Mile, Middle Mile and beyond. We compute how long it takes to get from A to B and what the safest path is, through road network construction and vending, pathfinding, and transit time estimation, running over a trillion route calculations a day. Our accuracy directly impacts planning, customer promise, and transporter safety.

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
• 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

PREFERRED 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

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Bellevue - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually

Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A10473129