Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers the physical engine at the heart of Amazon. AFT builds and operates software, hardware, and the processes that run the global network of fulfillment centers that move billions of units of inventory, employ tens of thousands of people, and ensure that customers get what they want when promised. We do this by building automated solutions to handle things that technology does well, while relying on people to handle things that humans do well.

The AFT Inventory organization is seeking a highly skilled Software Development Manager to lead our Inventory Management System. This role will shape the future of how fulfillment centers track end-to-end inventory, which is critical to enable order planning, customer promise and effective warehouse operations. As the SDM of this charter, you'll lead development of systems that handle billions of inventory transactions daily across Amazon's warehouses world-wide.

This position offers an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of distribuetd technology, directly impacting Amazon's fulfillment landscape. The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in distributed systems cloud computing, database management, and GenAI, along with strong leadership and problem-solving skills to drive innovation in this complex and dynamic field. If this sounds exciting to you, you’ll find this role to be engaging, challenging, and full of opportunities to learn and grow.

Key job responsibilities
- Building and maintaining systems that track inventory throughout Amazon's fulfillment network, designing scalable storage solutions, and developing high-performance APIs.

- Spearhead the development of next generation inventory management features for supporting evolving Amazon businesses such as Amazon Bulk Services

- Directly hiring, retaining, and growing top engineering talent within your group.

- Being a clear technical voice, working in partnership with your teams to deliver an architecture which will scale with the needs of Amazon's business

- Exercising operational oversight over your team's systems and products

- Quickly and reliably delivering high quality technical solutions that will delight our customers.

- Developing a product roadmap that focused on growth and automation

- Clearly communicating risks, successes, and missteps to leadership and to stakeholders

A day in the life
We are looking for highly motivated managers who are able to innovate in a fast paced, mission critical software ecosystem to change the landscape of Amazon's inventory management systems.

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

About the team
Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers Amazon’s global fulfillment network. We invent and deliver software, hardware, and data science solutions that orchestrate processes, robots, machines, and people. We harmonize the physical and virtual world so Amazon customers can get what they want, when they want it.

Inventory
AFT’s Inventory team delivers complex, innovative, scalable solutions to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of all physical goods across the Amazon fulfillment network, ensuring both inventory record accuracy and safe inventory handling for billions of items.