Software Development Manager, Privacy Safe Measurement

Amazon • Boulder, CO

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About The Position

Passionate about Big Data and Distributed Systems? Interested in building new
state-of-the-art products using AWS Services? Be part of a team of industry
leading experts that operates one of the largest big data analytics systems at
Amazon. We provide privacy safe measurement analytics to all of Amazon's
advertising partners.

Candidates for this position should be creative, demonstrated leaders with
superior analytical abilities and a strong drive to deliver results. This
opportunity requires deep technical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
We encourage applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds, experiences,
and perspectives.

The Advertising Analytics Platform is hiring SDMs!
Are you passionate about using Big Data to grow new businesses? Global
advertisers rely on our team's performance insights to drive future investment
in Amazon's Advertising Platform. We’re looking for a strong Software Engineer
Manager that can combine open source technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Spark
and Presto, as well as AWS services like Elastic Map Reduce (EMR), Kinesis and
DynamoDB to build the next generation of our analytics and visualization
platform. You’ll be the single-threaded owner of video advertising traffic
metrics. If this sounds interesting, we’d love to hear from you!

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the multi-year vision for a big data platform.
• Build, manage, and develop truly innovative engineers including making hiring recommendations and guiding and mentoring engineers and product and program managers within and outside of the team.
• Deliver robust and scalable solutions toward your vision, invent or incorporate in new technologies when needed.
• 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 across upstream and downstream teams to influence product development for advertising traffic data.
• Participate in strategic planning to achieve technical and business objectives and interact with customers, other leaders, and your team to construct your plan.

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed