Software Development Manager, Traffic Quality

Amazon Ads is a multi-billion dollar global business that delivers advertising experiences across Amazons owned-and-operated properties (including Prime Video Twitch Fire TV and ) third-party publisher networks and emerging channels like generative AI-powered shopping experiences. As one of the fastest-growing segments of Amazon we operate at unprecedented scale across desktop mobile connected TV and emerging surfaces.

Within Amazon Ads Traffic Quality is a critical pillar of advertiser trust and marketplace integrity. Our mission is to build advanced capabilities that work at petabyte scale to detect sophisticated invalid traffic (IVT) which includes sophisticated non-human traffic bot networks and fraudulent engagement patterns across programmatic advertising. We are on a journey to establish Amazon Ads as an industry leader in traffic quality standards and transparency. Our research agenda focuses on staying ahead of adversarial actors through continuous innovation in detection methodologies leveraging state-of-the-art techniques in deep learning and generative modeling user behavior and multi-modal representation learning anomaly detection time-series analysis and sparse labeling methods. We process billions of ad events daily developing novel algorithms that balance precision and recall while operating under strict latency constraints. Our work directly protects hundreds of millions of dollars in advertiser spend annually while maintaining a seamless user experience.

Key job responsibilities
* Define a long-term engineering vision for a TQ sub-program driven fundamentally from the needs of our customers and internal stakeholders translating that direction into specific plans for the team. Interpret complex and interrelated data points and anecdotes to build and communicate this vision to stakeholders and the team.
* Oversee the design development and implementation of production level code that handles billions of ad requests. Own the full development cycle: idea design prototype impact assessment A/B testing (including interpretation of results) and production deployment.
* Collaborate with scientists product managers and related teams in Amazon Advertising to find technical solutions to complex IVT detection problems.
* Collaborate with industry bodies and 3P vendors to build on existing partnerships.
* Improve upon existing systems to achieve efficiency in the operation load and footprint.
* Influence and continuously improve a sustainable team culture that exemplifies Amazons leadership principles. Coach team members to help them achieve their potential. Hire bar raising talent as the team expands.

- 7 years of engineering experience
- 3 years of engineering team management 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
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

- 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

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