Software Development Manager: Real-Time Ad Tech Leader

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a team of 11 engineers responsible for high-throughput, low-latency back-end services powering real-time ad relevance across Prime Video, Fire TV, and Alexa.

You will set the technical direction, define the product roadmap, and partner with Product, Science, and Technical Program Management to deliver multi-business impact.

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 team management

Engineering team collaboration

System design & architecture

SDLC knowledge

Partnership with Product/PM

Multi-tier web services leadership

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a team of 11 engineers responsible for high-throughput, low-latency back-end services powering real-time ad relevance across Prime Video, Fire TV, and Alexa.

You will set the technical direction, define the product roadmap, and partner with Product, Science, and Technical Program Management to deliver multi-business impact.