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Passionate about Big Data and Distributed Systems? Interested in building new state-of-the-art products at Petabyte scale? Be part of a team of industry leading experts that operates one of the largest big data analytics systems at Amazon. We own the campaign traffic reporting product for all of advertising. We are applying the latest machine learning and AWS big data technologies available on terabytes of data a day (over 100B new events per day) operating Petabyte size clusters. We constantly invent on our event-driven architectures to stay ahead of growing scale.

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.

Key Responsibilities:
Define and drive the multi-year vision for a big data processing 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.
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About the team
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!