We're looking for a Software Development Manager to lead the TriPOD team within MOD Tech, part of the Kindle Ingestion Experience (KIX) organization. TriPOD owns end-to-end content ingestion technology for Print on Demand (POD) across both Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) and Kindle Enterprise Publishing (KEP), serving independent authors and enterprise publishers worldwide. The team also owns the backend for Look Inside the Book (LITB), the feature that lets customers preview and search books on Amazon.

Key job responsibilities
As the engineering leader for TriPOD, you will manage a team of ~20 engineers across three squads (SPOON, FoRK, and KNIFE), plus support engineering and QA. You'll own the technical direction, team health, and delivery for systems that span content ingestion, book metadata, royalty processing, accounting, reporting, and international marketplace expansion. You will partner closely with Product, TPM, and business leadership to set the team's strategy and ensure we continue to deliver the best publishing experience for authors and publishers globally.

A day in the life
- Lead, coach, and grow a team of SDEs
- Own the technical vision and roadmap for POD publishing infrastructure, working closely with Product, TPM, and business stakeholders
- Drive operational excellence for systems that directly impact author/publisher revenue (royalty processing, accounting, payments)
- Partner with POD manufacturing systems, fulfillment networks, and financial/payments systems to ensure reliable end-to-end data flow
- Improve publishing workflows that pushes POD data to Amazon Detail Pages and catalog/inventory systems
- Champion best practices including code quality, testing, operational readiness, and on-call health
- Collaborate with peer SDMs to align on org-wide technical strategy