Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon and wondered how it got to you so fast? Did you ever think about where did this package come from and how much would it have costed to do that delivery? If so, the Amazon Supply Chain Optimization organization is for you.Watch this video to learn more about our organization, SCOT: http://bit.ly/amazon-scotWithin SCOT, Amazon's transportation systems enable millions of packages to be delivered to customers worldwide faster and cheaper while providing extraordinary customer experience - from search, checkout to shipment tracking to delivery. Our software systems include services that handle thousands of requests per second, make business decisions impacting billions of dollars a year, integrate with a network of small and large carriers worldwide, maintain business rules for millions of unique products, and improve experience for online shoppers. With rapid expansion into new geographies, innovations in supply chain, delivery models and customer experience, increasingly complex transportation network, ever expanding selection of products and growing number of shipments worldwide, we have an opportunity to build software that scales the business, leads the industry through innovation and delights millions of customers worldwide.As a Software Development Manager, you will be responsible for leading a team of motivated engineers in design, development, test and launch of new features and products. You will own services which model Amazon's transportation network and carrier capabilities/constraints, optimizes it for cost and exposes it to other systems in Amazon. These services improve customer experience by providing better promises and drive fulfillment planning and execution to lower transportation cost. These are highly available, low latency services that need to scale horizontally. It is critical part of Amazon's ordering and fulfillment pipeline.A proven history of building and sustaining highly available services is critical. Responsibilities include direct management of software engineers, collaboration with business leaders, planning, project management for software within the team. Successful candidates will be strong leaders who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of delivery. As a technical leader, you should be able to translate business needs into technology solutions that scale both technically and operationally.Key job responsibilitiesThis space requires a high level of strategy, engagement, execution, and operations to evolve the ordering and fulfillment capabilities for the next decade. This team is critical to Amazon's future success, and will provide great personal satisfaction and career development as we tackle some of the most intriguing network problems. The perfect candidate will thrive outside of defined role guidelines, practice extreme ownership, strike balance between strategic and tactical success, elevate their subordinates, manage upwards, and communicate ideas in a concise and succinct manner.High level responsibilities for this position include but are not limited to:* Directly manage a group of software development engineer, hiring, promotion, performance assessments etc.* Work closely with engineers to build large-scale, highly distributed systems solving complex problems for the Amazon supply chain business. Review both design specs and code and provide feedback to engineers to insist on highest standards in terms of system design and code quality.* Partner with Product, Business and Peer Managers to identify new features that can bring substantial benefits for customers. Prioritize feature requests to maximize contributions to our goals while maintaining the right trade-off between addressing tactical needs versus investing in strategic solutions.* Translate business requirements into engineering requirements to scope resource needs and mana