Advertisers spend tens of billions of dollars annually leveraging Amazon Advertising to grow their businesses. We support advertisers by building industry-standard advertiser controls (demand) with an open data plane serving an ever-growing number of ad serving channels (supply). Our services support all Sponsored Ads programs and all Display Ad programsyou can think of our team as the brain and nervous system of all advertisements within Amazon.
As advertisers and advertising tools rapidly adopt AI agents to plan optimize and achieve marketing goals Amazon Ads is building multiple agentic applications to lead this transformation. Our services are building common infrastructure such as MCP tools and real-time data services to accelerate agent development.
Our team owns a unified set of campaign management APIs with a global experience for multi-regional operations an auto-scalable campaign management storage and publishing pipeline capable of handling massive amounts of data per day and continuing to grow. We operate a world-class distributed system that services hundreds of millions of API requests per day streams data at petabyte scale and processes business logic on tight latency budgetsall while streaming data at high fidelity to 20 other services.
We are seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the roadmap for the unified campaign APIs and deliver a resilient architecture by driving client adoption of these unified APIs.
* Lead and grow teamsof talented software engineers who build services used by advertisers worldwide
* Define the groups priorities and visionto create and enhance software services that help advertisers enhance discoverability for all products they sell online
* Define and manage the roadmapfor your services in consultation with product managers helping advertisers reach new markets and build a strong brand presence
* Collaborate with and learn fromadvertising partner teams to drive customer value
* Maintain high standardsof service availability and operational excellence to operate efficiently at scale and high velocity
We hold ourselves to high standards so we can deliver world-class CI/CD pipelines that automate infrastructure provisioning high-volume load testing capabilities and first-rate monitoring systems that enable our engineers to focus on inventing for our advertisers all while maintaining services with exceptional reliability at massive scale. Were Looking for a leader who can drive technical excellence while growing and mentoring engineering teams someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment where innovation meets operational rigor and who is passionate about building infrastructure that powers the future of advertising technology.
- 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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually