Sellers are a critical part of Amazon’s ecosystem to deliver on our vision of offering the Earth’s largest selection and lowest prices. These Sellers offer hundreds of millions of unique products providing a broad and diverse inventory of products from Books, Electronics and Apparel to Consumables and beyond. Fulfillment By Amazon enables Sellers to provide fast and efficient delivery to their customers using Amazon fulfillment services which stores, packs, ships and provides customer service for seller products. Sellers now make up the majority of the business on Amazon.com.
The FBA team is responsible for the science, business, and operations of the core systems, algorithms, and seller-facing tools and workflows of the FBA service. These enable FBA sellers to enroll selection, plan and inbound product, and manage and action inventory in Amazon fulfillment network - managing through the full inventory lifecycle. FBA Capacity Management and Planning organization builds and manages tools worldwide for FBA capacity allocation, market-driven additional limit system, capacity management in emerging countries, inventory planning and forecasting, and the north-star seller-facing metric, the Inventory Performance Index.

FBA Capacity Management and Planning is looking for a highly motivated System Development Engineer to help build Amazon's business critical capacity and planning systems and build system solutions to operate at scale. You will work on critical business functions for our customers around the world while meeting aggressive system availability goals and ensuring system performance with growing business needs. You will discover innovative ways to automate and scale our infrastructure as we expand globally. You will work together with multiple teams and departments, with plenty of opportunities to learn and grow.

We are seeking an experienced people manager to lead the team of System Development Engineers and develop tools to improve the productivity at a massive scale The prospective manager will drive automation initiatives. He will partner with Product/Science/engg and support new initiatives to meet the product goals. He will be responsible to innovate for solving complex problems and continuously improve the systems. A successful candidate will be a hands-on manager with an established background in developing tools, automated solutions at scale, developing and hiring talent, have strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a dynamic fast paced environment.

Key job responsibilities
Key responsibilities of the role include (not limited to):
- Define and Drive goals for the team which includes understanding the product goals by working with the partners, track the progress, and support the team in delivering the goals.
- Manage the design and development of tools and automated solution to manage the data and services at scale to improve the productivity and quality of the models and availability of services including code reviews, testing, deployment and post-launch monitoring.
- Partner with Product/Science/Engineering and support new initiatives to meet the product goals.
- Establish strong relationships with internal partners and peer stakeholders to understand and meet their needs
- Focus on hands on development of your team. Mentor, coach and grow highly talented engineers. Train engineers on best practices and drive operational excellence.