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Description

Join our advertising technology team and lead the engineering efforts behind self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales across Amazon's Retail and Marketplace businesses. As a Software Development Manager, you'll assemble and mentor a team of engineers to solve complex technical and business challenges while owning the evolution of systems serving millions of advertisers. You'll work in a collaborative environment where you can think strategically, move quickly, and directly influence how customers leverage data to achieve business success.

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.


Key job responsibilities
- Assemble and lead an engineering team to solve challenging technical and business problems, while fostering a collaborative environment where team members can grow and contribute meaningfully

- Own the day-to-day maintenance and evolution of analytics systems and platforms that serve our advertiser base, ensuring reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement

- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders including product, finance, data science, and business intelligence teams to understand requirements, scope technical solutions, and prioritize work

- Make data-driven decisions by analyzing system performance, user feedback, and business metrics to inform recommendations for product and operational improvements

- Communicate clearly and persuasively with engineers, peers, and leadership through written documentation, presentations, and discussions to align on strategy and drive execution

A day in the life
As a Software Development Manager, you will assemble and lead a team of engineers to solve challenging technical and business problems. You are a customer-obsessed technical leader with sharp business acumen and a track record of building and growing engineering teams. You ship software and own the day-to-day maintenance and evolution of systems that serve the needs of our large and growing base of advertisers. We are looking for a leader who can thrive in a startup environment, thinks big, can move fast, and wants to change the way customers use data to drive business success. If you are passionate about creating the future, come join us as we work hard, have fun, and make history.

About the team
Analytics and Data Management owns delivering Spektr: “always-on analytics” platform for SSPA needs that is fully scalable and reliable. We're building world-class advertising products that are strategically important to Amazon's long-term growth, mining billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily. Our team is collaborative and motivated, with a shared commitment to innovation and customer obsession. We work across multiple organizations—partnering with leadership, finance, economists, machine learning scientists, and business intelligence teams—to deliver solutions that matter. We value people who can think big, move fast, and take ownership of their work. Joining us means becoming part of a group that's breaking fresh ground in advertising technology while maintaining the reliability and scale our customers depend on.