Software Development Manager - Machine Learning Sponsored Products

Amazon is investing heavily in building a worldclass advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of selfservice performance advertising solutions that drive discovery and sales. Our Sponsored Products helps merchants retail vendors and brand owners succeed via native advertising that grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. We optimize systems and ad placements to match advertisers demand with publishers supply using a combination of deep learning and multiobjective constrained optimization as well as ultralow latency and highvolume engineering systems. Our goals are to help buyers discover new products they love be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives and to build a sustainable business that helps Amazon continuously innovate on behalf of all customers. We are highly motivated collaborative and funloving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action.

Sponsored Products organization builds advanced deeplearning models largescale machinelearning pipelines and realtime serving infra to match shoppers intent to relevant ads on all devices for all contexts and in all marketplaces. Through precise estimation of shoppers interaction with ads and their longterm value we aim to drive optimal ads allocation and pricing and help to deliver a relevant engaging and delightful ads experience to Amazon shoppers. As the business and the complexity of various new initiatives we take continues to grow we are looking for entrepreneurial and selfdriven technical leaders to join the team.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Manager Machine Learning you will
Lead a stellar team of machine learning engineers to build the next generation of largescale lowlatency ML feature serving infrastructure to empower a wide range of business initiatives (e.g. deeplearningpowered predictive models large language models and generative AI) in Amazon Advertising.
Focus on the automation quality optimization to improve teams machine learning productivity and to advance the technical foundation to empower science innovation.
Advance teams engineering craftsmanship and operational excellence and drive continued technical innovation as a thought leader and practitioner.
Drive efficient planning and of new initiatives including collaboration with scientists product managers and partner teams
Hire and develop top talents provide technical and career development guidance to engineers in the organization.

Joining the team youll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic entrepreneurial environment while leveraging the resources of one of the worlds leading Internet companies.


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
Experience in owning and operating businesscritical applications and services and the ability to manage operational health in terms of relevant KPIs and mechanisms for improvement

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 building largescale machinelearning feature serving infrastructure for online recommendation personalization or search.

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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.