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Manager, Search Capacity, Search Capacity

Palo Alto, California, United States💼 Full-time💰 $188,100–$254,500🗓 2026-06-24 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the Search Capacity team to scale Amazon's distributed search systems by planning computational resources, optimizing costs, and ensuring performance SLAs for global customer queries.

Role type

Manager, Search Capacity (Infrastructure & Operations)

Builds

High-performance, fault-tolerant distributed search systems used by millions of Amazon customers

Domain

E-commerce / Distributed Systems / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

People management, computational capacity planning, cost efficiency analysis, hardware resource management, automation scripting (Python), advanced SQL, data visualization (Tableau/Quicksight), technical leadership of complex initiatives

Preferred skills

AWS solutions (EC2, DynamoDB, S3, Redshift), big data environments, business analytics, metrics-driven business improvement

Technologies

Python, SQL, Tableau, Quicksight, AWS (EC2, DynamoDB, S3, Redshift)

Responsibilities

Scale the Amazon Search service by collaborating with engineering and operations to drive optimal scaling and capacity planning; Identify and track key performance metrics around efficiency and costs; Manage planning, ordering, and budgeting for hardware and computational resources; Develop and improve tools for automating capacity planning and resource management; Analyze resource utilization and performance test data to identify variables impacting scalability and develop models for required hardware resources

Seniority

Manager, hands-on leadership

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