Current Vacancies at Amazon

DESCRIPTION
We are looking for an experienced Sr. Product Manager to lead product development of key features in our product roadmap, drive key business metrics, and develop requirements for innovative technologies.

As a successful candidate, you will have experience managing complex businesses, solving technical challenges, and influencing key partner teams to drive initiatives to completion. You have a strong bias toward data driven decision making and an innate ability to understand how metrics relate to business problems and to each other. You are a product leader who has the ability to communicate priorities and work effectively with stakeholders, including teams across software engineering, logistics, product management, legal, finance, and core retail businesses. You should be comfortable with an extremely high degree of ambiguity, can work across a wide cross section of stakeholders, and relish the idea of solving challenging problems. You will tackle novel, situations every day and given the size of this initiative, you’ll have the opportunity to work with Amazon teams around the globe.

Key job responsibilities

• Build and manage high quality product roadmaps based on business vision and strategy.
• Manage prioritization and trade-offs to ensure the right features are built with the right quality at the right time.
• Promote/drive decision making throughout the team.
• Partner with global product teams to identify and influence development of new products and services.
• Address barriers through problem solving and coordination with stakeholders. Gain support for your strategy and roadmap from stakeholders by writing narratives and influencing peers and senior leadership.
• Own, build and drive the customer experience with key local and global stakeholders such as , legal, accounting, operations and tech.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

• Cape Town, ZAF

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

•  Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
•  5+ years of experience in product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology
•  Experience overseeing roadmap strategy and definition
•  Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
•  Experience with end to end product delivery

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MBA or MS in Business Administration, Finance, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
•  Experience in influencing senior leadership through data driven insights
•  Experience working with internal consumers, especially in emerging countries
•  Proficiency in SQL and other statistical analysis tools
•  Experience in retail, supply chain, compliance, accounting or operations highly valued

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DESCRIPTION

• Are you passionate about Linux kernel development or have an interest in low level systems development? Then this position in the EC2 Nitro Hypervisor Oversubscription (NHO) team is for you. ​
• What you will do: You work along skilled software engineers solving challenging problems whist taking ownership of delivering projects.
• Why it matters: EC2, while a mature business, is still growing at an incredibly fast rate. Your job will be to ensure we build the right platform to enable the best customer experience at the cheapest rate.
• Why you’ll love it: This is an exciting team that provides plenty of space to innovate and grow. You will have ownership, not just responsibility.

Key job responsibilities

• As a Software Development Engineer, you’ll be responsible to build and operate core EC2 infrastructure that enables launches of thousands of EC2 instances every day.
• As an experienced engineer in this team, you will play an active role in developing high quality software designs & solutions to complex problems. You are successful at working autonomously in delivering software. You work with your team to invent, design and build software that is stable and performant. You write code that is easy to understand and your solutions are pragmatic. You regularly evaluate and improve your teams internal development processes.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as C, C++, Rust or Java is required.

On-Call Responsibility

• We rotate our on-call responsibilities which means that every 10 weeks, you would need to be contactable outside of office hours, however, our software is highly stable, so this rarely happens.

Mentorship & Career Growth

• Our team is dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.

About the team

• The EC2 NHO team forms part of the greater Oversubscription organisation. You will have the opportunity to work with the some of the best engineers in virtualization. The team has specialized skills in CPU & Memory oversubscription and some of the senior engineers have been around since the early days of EC2.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

•  Experience in professional, non-internship software development
•  Experience programming with at least one software programming language
•  Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

•  Experience in full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience