Software Development Manager, Measurement, Ad Tech, and Data Science, MADS

Join a team of industry-leading experts operating one of the largest big data analytics systems at Amazon, computing performance measurement for all advertising products at internet scale. Our data must be complete, correct, and fast - it enables advertisers and software systems to optimize campaigns and measure success.

You'll work alongside experts in Big Data and Distributed Systems, designing and building the infrastructure that powers measurement across Amazon Ads. We design highly-scalable applications on AWS (EMR with Spark, DynamoDB, ECS, etc) that process over 50 billion events per day, and we create produce accurate, actionable, and timely measurements. Our charter is to make measurement accurate and consistent across every advertising product.

This is a high-impact role where your work directly shapes how advertisers understand and optimize their campaigns. If you're excited by the challenge of solving complex data problems at massive scale and want to see your work drive real business outcomes, we'd love to hear from you. It is always Day 1 for us.

Key job responsibilities

• Define and drive the multi-year vision for a big data measurement platform.
• Deliver robust and scalable solutions toward your vision; invent or incorporate new technologies when needed.
• Build, manage, and develop world-class engineers.
• 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 on partner teams to influence the evolution of ads performance measurement.
• Participate in strategic planning to achieve technical and business objectives; interact with customers, other leaders, and your team to construct your plan.

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy

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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CO, Boulder - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually