Software Development Manager, Sponsored Products and Brands

Amazon • New York, NY

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About The Position

The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the
advertising landscape through industry leading generative AI technologies,
revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with
brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing
advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence
to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and
optimization to performance analysis and customer insights. We are a passionate
group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI
technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping
experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving
complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join
us in shaping the future of advertising.

The Clicks & Impressions Pipeline (CLIP) within the Sponsored Products and
Brands (SPB) organization is a large scale and highly available service that
centrally processes advertising signals (e.g. ad impressions, views, clicks,
video unmutes, etc) for numerous performance advertising businesses (e.g.
Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, Sponsored Brands Video, and Sponsored
Display). CLIP joins millions of ad events per second from various sources,
orchestrates business-specific event enrichments (e.g. robotic traffic
detection, business validation of chargeable events, geotagging, event
cardinality, etc), and vends out authoritative ad event data to support
real-time ad campaign optimizations, attribution, reporting, analytics, and
billing. Extensibility, scalability, and performance are at the core of problems
we solve in CLIP—our mission is to build the new generation of our systems to
support all of World Wide Ad Programs.

As a Software Development Manager on the CLIP team, you will manage a team of
engineers to build and maintain next generation ad events processing pipeline.
This work requires that we build redundant, highly available systems that scale
massively to ensure our advertisers can enhance discoverability for all the
products they sell online and connect Amazon customers with sellers and
selection anywhere in the world. We are increasingly focused on helping our
advertisers reach new markets and build a strong brand presence which means we
must think globally and be strategic about how we build our software to operate
24/7/365 in over 20 countries.

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
• Experience with natural language processing and generative model architectures

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers working on tier 1 services
• Partner with Product Leads and the broader Sponsored Products and Brands Organization to build features that help shoppers complete their mission; Define long term vision and product strategy
• Lead the end-to-end architecture, design, and implementation of ad event processing system processing billions of advertising transactions daily with high availability, low latency, and strict SLA requirements
• Ensure system scalability, reliability, and performance for tier-1 production services handling mission-critical advertising workloads across multiple AWS regions
• Design fault-tolerant systems with appropriate circuit breakers, fallback strategies, and graceful degradation to maintain advertiser trust during system anomalies
• Balance technical debt with feature velocity, making strategic decisions about when to refactor versus when to iterate
• Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers and working on advanced autonomous systems and agentic AI

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