Audio and Podcasts advertising is a complex and exciting technical space, as we run audio and display advertising across web, mobile, Alexa, and CTV surfaces. We are also at an inflection point in Amazon's ad tech evolution, moving from multiple sub-scale ad tech stacks to a scaled, publisher technology or supply side platform that is to advertising as AWS core services are to cloud computing.

Audio is a critical growth engine for advertising and one of our fastest growing teams and products. You will be inventing alongside our Publisher Technology team, and extending Audio ads solutions to Ads Console, Local Advertising, Audio on Twitch and Alexa while balancing 1P and 3P audio supply.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Manager (SDM), you will lead a team of engineers to solve challenging technical and business problems. You will drive technical strategy and architecture in the demand space. You will work closely with business teams, product managers, engineers, and partner teams to create and drive plans that transform ideas into products that delight your customers. Your strong coaching and mentoring skills will help you develop individuals in your team, fostering a high-performance collaborative development environment.

The successful candidate is expected to have deep software engineering, project management, and people management skills. They must possess strong verbal and written communication skills, be self-driven, and have the ability to deliver high quality results in a fast paced environment. We are looking for someone customer-obsessed with a passion for advertising.

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
• 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

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

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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, NY, New York - 203,400.00 - 275,200.00 USD annually