Manager, Search Capacity, Search Capacity
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