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Amazon Software Development Manager - Amazon Advertising DSP, ADSP Pricing in Boulder, Colorado
Description
Want to work in a start-up environment with the resources of Amazon behind you? Do you want to have direct and immediate impact on millions of customers every day? In this role, you will be a technical leader with massive impact. If you are a self-starter, enjoy building large scale distributed systems, and are intrigued by ambiguous problems, look no further.
The Amazon Demand Side Platform, (ADSP) is building the next generation of products and services that will fuel the future growth of Amazon’s ad solutions. Our team is driving innovations to support Amazon and 3rd party advertising across all types of channels at massive scale. This is a chance to be in on a huge opportunity as we put an Amazon twist into online advertising.
We're looking for entrepreneurial, innovative individuals who thrive on solving tough problems. We are investing in a deep technical team to pursue a transformation opportunity around advertising technology.
Key job responsibilities
Our team's mission is to be the central source in the Amazon Advertising stack to vend and distribute fees.
Come with great ideas on how to create self-service, highly scalable, and incredibly fast (think <100ms) apis and systems to deliver ads quickly all across the globe.
A day in the life
Our team is focused on delivering results. We empower our team of leaders to make decisions to unblock themselves and others.
About the team
We hold a high bar, for work and a higher bar for fun! ex: Lots of communicating in Gifs, (G-if, not Jif), [gif of this is fine is used a lot], team events and quick meetings to sort out the details, vs going back over email for days.
Stuck on a small task? No big deal, let's talk through quickly and decide a path forward. Engineers on the ADSP Pricing team are responsible for owning their work, and looping in others when needed - We're a Kanban approach, so we jump to the next up project when ready.
We lean heavily on chat communication vs long and hard-to-parse emails, and we're always interested in newer and faster ways of doing things!
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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.