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That job description feels so far beyond parody that I could scarcely believe it until opening the link! What a world.

[root-parent]

It gets worst:

"Senior Software Development Manager, AWS Global Bill Generation" https://www.amazon.jobs/de/jobs/10471948/senior-software-dev...

"We're transforming from monthly batch processing and manual war rooms to continuous billing, autonomous agents, and self-healing infrastructure. We believe operational burden is a technical problem, not a staffing problem"

This looks clearly...a staffing problem...

[ghurtado]

> This looks clearly...a staffing problem..

I think that big tech recently decided that I got 99 problems but staffing ain't one

I guess Nothing is a staffing problem when you make a rule that firing people is always the solution.

[quickthrowman]

They need to fire whoever is running AP and AP software development. Vibe invoicing is ridiculous for anyone to do, let alone Amazon.

[wbl]

If you can make the software cover the toil you save the staff for the tough cases.

[naiveter]

> This looks clearly...a staffing problem...

And if that weren't enough, the "manual war rooms" alone should be setting off alarm bells.

[iam-TJ]

The best bit of that is:

> In this role, you will own end-to-end bill run execution across all AWS partitions, drive the technical vision for autonomous billing operations, and build the team that ensures every customer receives an accurate cost estimated in minutes ...

[LPisGood]

Seriously! If I were making a joke I would say something like

> Build AI-driven continuous validation frameworks powered by agentic workflows and large language models that autonomously manage…

But that’s word for word a 250k+ TC job in the big ‘26.

[paganel]

> enabling domain experts to review in hours what previously took weeks.

This is a gold-mine. They need to get sued heavily for this incompetence.