Senior Software Development Manager - Ads Backend

Amazon Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 213,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC's M&E Advertiser Performance team is seeking a Manager III to lead 11 engineers building high-throughput, low-latency back-end services powering personalized ad relevance in real-time bidding for Prime Video, Fire TV, and Alexa.

You will shape the technical direction, own the roadmap, and partner with Product, Science, and TPM to deliver scalable, secure, and performant systems with measurable advertiser and viewer outcomes.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience.
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 11+ software development engineers who own high-throughput, low-latency back-end services, guiding them through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing operations.
• Define and own a 1 to 2 year product roadmap for your team's services, aligning technical priorities with organizational goals and advertiser performance outcomes across Prime Video, Fire TV, and Alexa.
• Partner with Product, Science, and Technical Program Management stakeholders to translate business and research requirements into system design decisions, evaluating tradeoffs in scalability, latency, maintainability, and security.
• Coach and develop engineers through collaborative growth planning, regular feedback, and strategic project assignments that strengthen both individual careers and overall team capability.
• Build and maintain operational metrics and mechanisms that give visibility into service health, system performance, and advertiser outcomes, and take action to continuously reduce risk and improve quality.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Web services design

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring engineers

Reliability & scalability

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC's M&E Advertiser Performance team is seeking a Manager III to lead 11 engineers building high-throughput, low-latency back-end services powering personalized ad relevance in real-time bidding for Prime Video, Fire TV, and Alexa.

You will shape the technical direction, own the roadmap, and partner with Product, Science, and TPM to deliver scalable, secure, and performant systems with measurable advertiser and viewer outcomes.