DESCRIPTION

Amazon Advertising offers a rich array of digital display advertising solutions helping our advertisers reach and engage with audiences worldwide. We enable advertisers to connect with audiences across our digital properties, high-quality third-party sites, streaming TV, and millions of devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you're interested in joining a rapidly growing business working to build tailored advertising experiences with a relentless focus on the customer, you've come to the right place.

We are looking for a Software Development Manager (SDM) to join our Recommendation Experience team to pioneer and build innovative solutions that deliver personalized experiences to our advertisers. You will lead the development of systems that integrate personalization capabilities throughout the advertising console, creating more efficient and effective advertising workflows within the Amazon Advertising platform.

As an SDM, you are responsible for delivering personalized experiences that hundreds of thousands of advertisers use to manage their advertising strategies on Amazon. You will bring deep technical expertise to integrate personalization services and build scalable solutions that adapt to advertiser needs. Your contributions will directly lead to more intuitive experiences, improved advertiser productivity, and innovative features that leverage personalization capabilities across our platform. If you enjoy working with high-performance teams, being part of a rapidly growing business, and inventing creative solutions to complex technical challenges, this may be the role for you.

Great candidates for this role will have strong communication skills and know how to work collaboratively with teams across time zones. They should have experience building scalable web applications, system design, and integration of distributed services. They enjoy diving deep into technical details while maintaining a clear focus on delivering value through personalized experiences. Most importantly, they will work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers, product leaders, and software development managers to deliver excellent solutions that enhance the advertising experience through personalization.


Key job responsibilities
- Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team that delivers personalized advertising experiences at scale.
- Drive technical vision and architecture decisions that enable scalable personalization capabilities across the advertising platform.
- Partner with Product and Design teams to translate personalization requirements into technical solutions.
- Ensure operational excellence through metrics, monitoring, and maintenance of high availability systems.
- Mentor and develop engineers while fostering a culture of innovation and technical excellence.
- Drive engineering best practices, code quality, and technical design reviews.
- Collaborate with partner engineering teams to design and implement integrated personalization solutions.
- Manage team roadmap and execution, balancing technical debt with feature delivery.
- Build and maintain scalable systems that can support hundreds of thousands of advertisers.
- Own delivery of technical solutions that improve advertiser experience through personalization.


A day in the life
As an Amazon SDM, your day typically involves balancing technical leadership with people management. You might start your morning with your team's standup, unblocking critical issues and ensuring progress on key personalization features. Throughout the day, you'll collaborate with product managers to refine requirements for upcoming personalization capabilities, while working with your engineers on technical design reviews and architecture decisions.

You'll spend time mentoring engineers, reviewing pull requests, and ensuring your team's services maintain high availability as they serve personalized experiences to hundreds of thousands of advertisers. Cross-team collaboration is key - you'll sync with partner teams to align on integration points and shared services, whether that's discussing API contracts or planning joint deliverables.

Part of your day involves monitoring system health, analyzing performance metrics, and making data-driven decisions to improve the platform's scalability and reliability. You'll also focus on team growth and development, conducting 1:1s with team members, providing technical guidance, and helping engineers advance in their careers.

Strategic planning is another crucial aspect - you'll work on technical roadmaps, capacity planning, and making architectural decisions that enable the team to deliver personalized experiences at scale. Whether you're diving deep into a technical challenge with your engineers or collaborating with leadership on strategic initiatives, you'll be focused on building systems that make our advertising platform more intuitive and efficient through personalization.