Software Development Manager - Big Data

Seattle, Washington, USA

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Passionate about Big Data and Distributed Systems? Interested in building new state-of-the-art products at Petabyte scale?
Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are at the forefront of that explosive growth. We deliver campaign reporting for all of Amazon advertising and produce analytics and reporting data that are used by advertisers to grow their business every day. We process billions of ad impressions, clicks, and conversion events daily and we invent and evolve our event-driven architectures with AWS to manage the extreme scale of our data growth. As campaign reporting product owners, we are also breaking fresh ground to create world-class analytics products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and agile 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.We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, highly respected advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place.

The Measurement and Data Science team delivers campaign measurement and reporting across Amazon Advertising business and serves as the scientific center of excellence for algorithm development in campaign measurement. Our measurement and engineering platforms and products deliver campaign performance reporting to advertisers. By showing ads on and off our site, we effectively measure the Internet with billions of incoming, highly decorated events to process and summarize every day in near real time. Our infrastructure is extreme scale, requiring invention ahead of common technologies and exceeding PB scale with millions of transactions per second. We are highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action.

Candidates for this position should be creative, demonstrated leader with excellent analytical abilities and a strong drive to deliver results. This opportunity requires deep technical, problem-solving and communication skills.

Key Responsibilities:
· Define and drive the multi-year vision for a big data processing platform.
· Build, manage, and develop 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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Basic Qualifications


· 7+ years of experience working directly within engineering teams
· Experience partnering with product OR program management teams
· 3+ years of people management experience, managing engineers
· 3+ years of experience architecting and designing (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or closely related field
· Experience in building scalable systems based on web services

Preferred Qualifications

· Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
· Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
· Deep hands-on technical expertise in cloud based distributed software design and development, particularly using AWS services
· Experience with big data technologies including Spark, Lambda, Kinesis, EMR, DynamoDB, Hadoop, Hive, Pig, etc.
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences


Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Tags: Agile AWS Big Data Computer Science Distributed Systems DynamoDB Engineering Hadoop Kinesis Lambda Spark Testing

Perks/benefits: Career development Team events

Region: North America
Country: United States
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