Software Development Manager, Planning and Traffic Measurement

Passionate about Big Data and Distributed Systems Interested in building new state-of-the-art products at Petabyte scale Be part of a team of industry leading experts that operates one of the largest big data analytics systems at Amazon. We own the campaign traffic reporting product for all of advertising. We are applying the latest machine learning and AWS big data technologies available on terabytes of data a day (over 100B new events per day) operating Petabyte size clusters. We constantly invent on our event-driven architectures to stay ahead of growing scale.

Candidates for this position should be creative demonstrated leaders with superior analytical abilities and a strong drive to deliver results. This opportunity requires deep technical problem-solving and communication skills. We encourage applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds experiences and perspectives.

Key Responsibilities:
Define and drive the multi-year vision for a big data processing platform.
Build manage and develop truly innovative engineers including making hiring recommendations and guiding and mentoring engineers and product and program managers within and outside of the team.
Deliver robust and scalable solutions toward your vision invent or incorporate in new technologies when needed.
Ensure high quality design reviews that meet business and architectural goals and drive critical feedback on architecture and design issues.
Oversee resource allocation to ensure appropriate business and staff development goals are met.
Build relationships with software development managers engineers product managers and technical program managers across upstream and downstream teams to influence product development for advertising traffic data.
Participate in strategic planning to achieve technical and business objectives and interact with customers other leaders and your team to construct your plan.
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About the team
The Advertising Analytics Platform is hiring SDMs!
Are you passionate about using Big Data to grow new businesses Global advertisers rely on our teams performance insights to drive future investment in Amazons Advertising Platform. Were looking for a strong Software Engineer Manager that can combine open source technologies such as Hadoop Hive Spark and Presto as well as AWS services like Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) Kinesis and DynamoDB to build the next generation of our analytics and visualization platform. Youll be the single-threaded owner of video advertising traffic metrics. If this sounds interesting wed love to hear from you!

- 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

- 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 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.