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Do you want to lead a team whose work shapes what millions of viewers see on their screens? The M&E Advertiser Performance team at Amazon builds high-throughput, low-latency back-end services that power personalized ad relevance in the real-time bid process for Media & Entertainment advertisements. When this team succeeds, advertisers reach the right audience at the right moment and viewers discover content they actually care about across Prime Video, Fire TV, and Alexa. As a Software Development Manager on this team, you will lead 11 engineers who own these critical services end to end. You will set the technical direction, define the product roadmap, and partner closely with Product, Science, and Technical Program Management stakeholders to deliver results that span multiple Amazon businesses. The team has already delivered compelling value and has a strong roadmap for the next 2+ years as we continue to invest, scaling functionality across new advertising placements and products. You will step into an established team with strong engineering talent and well-defined ways of working, giving you a solid foundation to make an immediate impact.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead a team of 11+ software development engineers who own high-throughput, low-latency back-end services, guiding them through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing operations.
• Define and own a 1 to 2 year product roadmap for your team's services, aligning technical priorities with organizational goals and advertiser performance outcomes across Prime Video, Fire TV, and Alexa.
• Partner with Product, Science, and Technical Program Management stakeholders to translate business and research requirements into system design decisions, evaluating tradeoffs in scalability, latency, maintainability, and security.
• Coach and develop engineers through collaborative growth planning, regular feedback, and strategic project assignments that strengthen both individual careers and overall team capability.
• Build and maintain operational metrics and mechanisms that give visibility into service health, system performance, and advertiser outcomes, and take action to continuously reduce risk and improve quality.

A day in the life You start your morning reviewing latency dashboards and operational health for the team's real-time bidding services. By mid-morning you are in an architecture review with your engineers, pressure-testing a proposal for a new personalization feature. After lunch you sit down with a direct report to talk through their career goals and map out their next project opportunity. Later, you join a working session with your Science partners to align on an upcoming model integration, then close the day by reviewing your roadmap priorities with your Technical Program Manager to keep delivery on track.

About the team The M&E Advertiser Performance team builds the back-end services that bring personalized relevance into Amazon's real-time ad bidding process for Media & Entertainment. Our work directly impacts advertiser results and viewer experience across Prime Video, Fire TV, and Alexa. We are a team of 11 engineers who partner closely with Science, Product, and Technical Program Management to deliver at scale. With a proven track record of results and continued investment in expanding across new placements and products, this is a team with real momentum. We value collaboration, technical rigor, and an inclusive environment where every engineer's perspective makes our systems better.

Basic Qualifications

• 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
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience

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
• 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.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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

USA, CA, Sunnyvale - 212,700.00 - 287,700.00 USD annually

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 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience