Want to have impact on one of the highest traffic platforms on the internet? Interested in accelerating innovation on the search experience? Love working directly with customers? Want to influence across the Search technology stack from the search front-end to the search engine? Come join Search Foundational Technologies (SFT). SFT’s is mission is to launch high value strategic search experiences where customers love to discover and shop products on Amazon. We partner with in-house technologists, scientists, and Search builders (500+ Partner organizations) to successfully experiment and launch high-value strategic search experiences. We do this while maintaining Amazon customer trust through investment in future-looking architecture and tooling that enables fast and safe experimentation, ensuring all customer-facing features are highly available, performant, and defect-free.

We are looking for someone with a real passion for innovation, team work, hustle, good communication, creative problem solving, learning, and having fun.


Key job responsibilities
The Principal TPM will own programs, planning, and client engagement while building internal mechanisms to maximize productivity across engineering teams distributed across multiple locations. Working with hundreds of client teams, the TPM will partner with other leaders to self-identify and develop customer-facing mechanisms that improve roadmap prioritization, transparency, and customer satisfaction. Leaders in this role must create a culture of innovation, encouraging colleagues to find new and better ways to identify and solve problems.

The TPM will drive large-scale programs, including company-wide Search product expansion and operational cost improvements for Search and hundreds of client teams, while managing complex cross-functional technology initiatives. They will remediate critical problems and manage escalations as needed. The role involves disambiguating complex requirements, driving clarity, building consensus, and defining architectural strategies to meet Amazon builders' needs.


About the team

Amazon Search creates customer-focused product search solutions and technologies. Whenever a customer visits an Amazon site worldwide and types in a query or browses through product categories, our systems go to work. We delight customers when we accurately understand their intent expressed via a query or image, and reflect that understanding throughout the search page - from layout to the search results and navigation. We make shopping effortless by helping customers easily explore our vast selection, narrowing down a myriad of options to a manageable consideration set while providing key information to make high confidence decisions with low post-purchase regret. The Search team designs, builds, and delivers high performance, fault-tolerant, scalable distributed systems used by millions of Amazon customers every day.