Software Development Manager, Data Infrastructure

About us:

Amazon Advertising builds and manages systems with extreme high performance and availability. We serve and respond to hundreds of billions of requests annually, and have ambitions to grow that number several orders of magnitude, while maintaining response latencies in the milliseconds and meeting strict SLA requirements. We delight in data, and are constantly trying to enrich our models and make more informed decisions using every bit and byte we have.

This role is in our bidding data and analytics team. We operate at scale, making sense of terabytes of hourly data. Our data outputs power multiple critical parts of the Advertising business, and we operate with high-availability principles. We're at a point of rapid change, both for our business and our architecture, bringing numerous opportunities for strategic and design-level thinking.

About you:

You know how to lead an engineering team through ambiguity. You do it by using principles, like customer obsession, dive deep, and frugality because you love the feeling of leadership in the morning.

You know how to organize and empower a team to deliver, keeping them focused and working through challenges. You drive yourself and others to constantly come up with better solutions, helping the team see when it needs a bigger boat.

You balance different types of priorities: a product roadmap, the technical strategy of your systems, engineering and operational excellence, the team's growth, and requests from business partners. You recognize that only you will bring balance to these priorities.

You have experience reacting quickly, whether it's an operational situation, or a change in priorities. Some situations need to be planned out, some need quick decisions. When you're not sure, you can bring together team members and partners, and come up with a customer-centric approach.

You are data driven, seeking out data, perspectives, and counter-perspectives. This isn't always easy but it's important because insufficient facts always invite danger.

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

- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services 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

- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

- Experience in advertising or working with ad tech

- Experience with distributed data pipelines or data frameworks and applications, such as Hadoop, Spark, Druid, and Elasticsearch

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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