Software Development Manager, Ads Agent Fabric (Ads AI Core Infrastructure)

Advertisers and advertising tools are rapidly adopting AI agents to plan optimize and achieve marketing goals. The Ads Agent Fabric teams mission is to deliver a common infrastructure supporting all advertising-aware model-based applications (i.e. agents) and accelerate development of agentic applications for our advertisers. The team is responsible for an agent-builder SDK with pre-integrated Ads features agent-builder tools that accelerate develop test and model evaluation lifecycle and a fully-managed runtime with integrated access to the Ads services data and foundational models.

As the SDM on the Agent Fabric team you will lead a team of engineers in the design and delivery of critical infrastructure components that enable Amazon Ads to build and deploy AI agents at scale. Youll work at the intersection of distributed systems machine learning infrastructure and developer tooling defining technical strategy for how thousands of advertisers interact with AI-powered advertising solutions. This role requires deep technical expertise in building scalable platforms and comfort with ambiguity as youll be building in an emerging space where best practices and technical requirements are still be defined. You will need strong system design skills ability to hire and develop a team of engineers define technical strategy and capability to influence senior stakeholders on architecture decisions and roadmap planning.

Key job responsibilities
- Own the full software development lifecycle from design to production launch of core infrastructure components and services
- Manage a team of software engineers from junior to senior levels
- Build highly scalable low-latency infrastructure supporting real-time agent execution
- Define technical standards and best practices for a team of engineers across development testing and deployment
- Partner with applied scientists to translate research innovations into production-ready services
- Lead architecture reviews and provide technical guidance to engineers across multiple teams

- 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 NY New York - 203400.00 - 275200.00 USD annually