Pricing Shared Services is core team that enables pricing for Amazon worldwide. You will play a key role in the evolution of our core platform services and Pricing algorithms to solve the world's most complex technical challenges in pricing optimization, large-scale computing, distributed systems, web applications, algorithms and data mining - to name a few. The Pricing systems are responsible for determining and publishing prices automatically, for the millions of items that Amazon sells worldwide ranging from Books to Consumer Electronics to Shoes. Each country presents a unique set of complexities in generating the price. We are experimenting with new machine learning algorithms to lower the prices for our customers. We are redesigning our core services to scale up with Amazon’s growth plans.

As an experience SDM in Amazon Pricing team, you will play a key role in solving some of the world's most complex technical challenges presented by machine learning and big scale systems. You will apply Large-scale computing, Distributed systems, Data mining, Scalability, Machine learning and Statistical Algorithms techniques.

To be successful you will need to be able to keep the long-term objectives in mind while guiding the team through short-term obstacles. You drive relentlessly to develop the careers of your developers, improve our development processes, remove bottlenecks and friction, and allow the team to move at a fast pace. You will need to collaborate closely with business leads, product owners, technical program managers, designers and partner teams. You are comfortable with a degree of ambiguity and are always open to identifying alternative paths.

What does an ideal Software Development Manager candidate look like? First, you have demonstrated strong technical, project management, and leadership skills by leading a team of software engineers to develop products used by millions of people every day. You love attracting and growing high caliber-talent, and have a record of accomplishment to prove it.

Opportunity:
Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation? Do you want to better understand how Amazon fosters customer trust globally with its pricing decisions? Does the challenge of applying state-of-the-art computer science to define/design/build tools powered by large scale systems that solve real-world problems interest you? Do you have a passion for taking complex business inputs and processes and designing best-in-class workflows and interfaces which deliver simple, seamless user experiences? To meet these challenges, Amazon's Pricing team is looking for passionate and innovative software development engineers with a blend of technical, analytical and design skills who will work with other software engineers, project managers, product managers across different countries and cross-functional teams to help build out the next generation pricing tools for Amazon.com worldwide.