Software Development Manager Tech Spine

This is a rare opportunity to own and deliver a growing suite of services for Amazon Supply Technologies.

What is Amazon Advertising
Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising offering a rich array of digital advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers on Amazon across our other owned and operated sites on other high quality sites across the web and on millions of devices (Kindles Fire tablets Fire TV Alexa mobile Twitch and more). We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do including advertising. If youre interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique highly respected advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer youve come to the right place.

What does Tech Spine the hiring team do
The Tech Spine team within Amazon Advertising is building the next generation of products and services that will fuel the growth of Amazons advertising business. We own the Publisherfacing horizontal infrastructure for critical services our Publishers use daily to monetize their ondemand streaming and static placements across Amazons ad network in a few clicks. Publishers interact directly with our platform through programmatic APIs and using our storage solutions and get enterprisegrade access to optimize billions of impression opportunities per day.

What is the Tech Spine team looking for
We seek a Software Development Manager (SDM) to expand our suite of experiences as we grow to become the best Advertising Supply Technologies on the market. You will partner with our customers Product Managers Senior and Principal Engineers and teams across Ads to design implement evaluate and improve our architecture. As a Software Development Manager for a suite of APIs services and infrastructure that provide the administrative and control interface for Publisher Technologies.

If I were hired what would I be working on
This is a rare opportunity to start a develop and maintain a new set of services at Amazon. You will be a foundational member of the team that builds services to grow and scale infrastructure for the Amazon SupplySide Technologies in Advertising. Youll work with customer and product owners to scope design implement test and launch new experiences and features to simplify automate and reduce the effort to recognize and find the perfect audiences for our publishers. While we have been around for about 3 years we are still growing our service suite working through architecture and talking with our customers and partners to set a bold vision focused on ease of use scaling and developer agility. You will be a critical decisionmaker for the technologies architecture and tools we use to build test and deploy our publisher experiences. You will put your architecture and designs ideas into practice to delight our customers.


3 years of engineering team management experience
7 years of engineering 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 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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.