Software Development Manager, Amazon Advertising

Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of e-commerce and advertising offering a range of digital advertising solutions with the goal of helping customers discover and shop for anything they want to buy. The Amazon Advertising business is growing at a fast pace and this teams mission is to apply technology to accelerate that growth through best-in-class software engineering data engineering and business intelligence.

As part of the Sales Technology team our goal is to deliver best-in-class products and data solutions to improve the effectiveness of Amazon Advertisings sales teams worldwide. We are building sales enablement products for Amazon Advertising front line sales team.

As a Software Development Manager you will be responsible for leading the development and launch of core product features that will impact Amazon Ads. You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping to define product features driving system architecture and spearheading best development practices. Engineers on this team can transform large data sets and disparate systems into actionable insight-driven products that help Sales teams serve both world-renowned brands and small businesses selling products on Amazon. If you are interested in joining Amazon Advertising and building services that enable Advertising to reach its innovative goals we look forward to connecting with you.

Youll be part of a world-class team in a fast-paced environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to work on massive scale systems and gain top-notch experience in cloud computing LLM all while being part of a collaborative and innovative team






Key job responsibilities
- Building leading and growing high-performing engineering team including recruiting mentoring motivating promoting and performance management
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams including customers product managers stakeholders and leaders to ensure the successful delivery of product capabilities
- Timely execution and prioritization of goals for the team and effectively mitigating risks.
- Technical leadership including architecture and design discussions and technical deep dives to ensure resolution of root causes of complex issues
- Manage the operational support of products at scale to ensure prevention and timely resolution of customer impactful problems.

- 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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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 IL Chicago - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually