Software Development Manager, Measurement, Ad Tech, and Data Science

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in Seattle is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to direct the large-scale attribution systems that measure how ads investments drive outcomes. You will guide architecture, scale, and data processing across Spark, EMR, Iceberg, DynamoDB, and S3.

You will recruit and mentor engineers, partner with product managers, scientists, and economists to shape attribution strategies, balancing latency, privacy, and cost while delivering robust, scalable solutions.

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

Responsibilities

• Own the 1-2 year technical vision and strategic direction for a big data measurement platform, defining how attribution evolves to meet increasingly complex advertiser needs and privacy requirements
• Build, manage, and develop a team of world-class engineers — establishing team structure, assessing skills, delegating ownership, and growing future leaders
• Partner with product managers, scientists, and economists to shape the vision for attribution measurement across products, channels, devices, and conversion types
• Set technical direction alongside senior engineers — ensuring high-quality design reviews, driving critical feedback on architecture, and challenging proposals with concrete alternatives
• Deliver robust and scalable solutions toward your vision; invent or incorporate new technologies when needed to stay ahead of growing scale
• Build relationships with peer SDMs, engineers, product managers, and TPMs on partner teams to influence the evolution of ads performance measurement across Amazon Ads
• Oversee resource allocation to balance tactical delivery needs against strategic goals and staff development
• Participate in organizational planning (OP1/OP2) to achieve technical and business objectives; interact with customers, leadership, and your team to construct your plan

Skills

Engineering leadership

Team management

Cross-functional collaboration

System design/architecture

Product-management partnership

Tools

Apache Spark

Amazon EMR

Apache Iceberg

DynamoDB

S3

AWS cloud

Job description

Lead the engineering team building the large-scale attribution systems that help advertisers understand how their advertising investments drive meaningful customer and business outcomes — processing more than 50 billion events per day to produce the measurements consumed across all of Amazon Ads. Your team's work directly influences how advertisers understand the value of Amazon Ads, how campaigns and automated systems optimize investments, and ultimately how Amazon's advertising business grows.

Attribution is at the heart of advertising measurement — connecting ad interactions with downstream outcomes such as purchases, subscriptions, and conversions. Building accurate attribution at Amazon scale is a uniquely challenging engineering and scientific problem: our systems must connect signals across complex customer journeys, advertising products, devices, and channels while navigating fragmented identity signals, evolving privacy requirements, changing measurement methodologies, and increasingly sophisticated advertiser needs. Small decisions in data processing or attribution methodology can affect measurement for millions of advertisers and influence how significant advertising investments are allocated.

This is a hands-on engineering leadership role. You will set technical direction alongside senior engineers, dive deep into architecture and operational issues, challenge designs with concrete alternatives, and build a team capable of solving difficult distributed-systems and data problems. You'll partner closely with product managers, applied scientists, and economists to shape the long-term vision for attribution measurement — determining how Amazon Ads should measure increasingly complex customer journeys, translating new methodologies into scalable production systems, and making deliberate tradeoffs across measurement accuracy, signal coverage, latency, privacy, transparency, and infrastructure cost. Our technology stack includes large-scale data processing using Apache Spark and Amazon EMR, data storage and processing with Apache Iceberg, DynamoDB, and S3, and distributed services built on AWS cloud-native infrastructure.

Key job responsibilities

• Own the 1-2 year technical vision and strategic direction for a big data measurement platform, defining how attribution evolves to meet increasingly complex advertiser needs and privacy requirements
• Build, manage, and develop a team of world-class engineers — establishing team structure, assessing skills, delegating ownership, and growing future leaders
• Partner with product managers, scientists, and economists to shape the vision for attribution measurement across products, channels, devices, and conversion types
• Set technical direction alongside senior engineers — ensuring high-quality design reviews, driving critical feedback on architecture, and challenging proposals with concrete alternatives
• Deliver robust and scalable solutions toward your vision; invent or incorporate new technologies when needed to stay ahead of growing scale
• Build relationships with peer SDMs, engineers, product managers, and TPMs on partner teams to influence the evolution of ads performance measurement across Amazon Ads
• Oversee resource allocation to balance tactical delivery needs against strategic goals and staff development
• Participate in organizational planning (OP1/OP2) to achieve technical and business objectives; interact with customers, leadership, and your team to construct your plan

About the team

The Measurement, Ad Tech, and Data Science (MADS) organization defines and produces the metrics advertisers rely on to analyze the performance of their ad investments. The measurements our systems produce are consumed across Amazon Ads products and increasingly serve as foundational signals for optimization systems, machine learning models, analytics applications, and AI-powered advertising experiences.

Basic 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, SEATTLE - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually