Software Development Manager, Demand Tech - Media Enablement Team

Position: Software Development Manager, Amazon Demand Tech - Media Enablement Team
Location: New York

This job is with Amazon, an inclusive employer and a member of my Gwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

DESCRIPTION:

Final date to receive applications:
Feb 19, 2026

Amazon is continuing to invest in its Worldwide Online Display Advertising business to tap into the growing online advertising market. Amazon is using its first class technology, unique user data, and cross-device user identification to become the go-to solution for the world's largest advertising agencies and advertisers. To meet this goal, Amazon is investing in our proprietary Amazon Demand Side Platform (DSP).

The DSP Engineering team within Multichannel Advertising is building the next generation of products and services that will fuel the growth of Amazon's advertising business. The DSP team owns the web app for advertisers to place orders for programmatic ad campaigns on Amazon and most other sites across the Internet. Think order management including capturing limit prices, targeting customer segments, spreadsheet-style inline editing, bulk order editing, integration with algorithms, and connectivity to advertising exchanges.

We are looking for a talented Engineering leader to lead our customer facing technology for the Supply business. This includes advertiser facing web applications as well as partner integrations. In this role, you will build and lead a team of engineers and partner closely with cross functional business and technology leaders. You will draw from your broad and deep understanding of digital advertising, technical product, engineering and business expertise to provide leadership for defining customer needs, product proposals and delivery.

You will work closely with leaders across Amazon to define and rapidly execute on cross functional initiatives.

Key job responsibilities
Driving engineering - product and engineering goal definitions, business requirements for product releases, engineering design, implementation and delivery.
Simplifying and solving for complex, inter-dependent customer and business opportunities.
Deep interactions with customers and field teams - work directly with customers, internal stakeholders, sales and business development managers across Amazon Advertising.
Hiring, leading and mentoring engineers and architects.
Product operations - Monitor customer feedback, response, and metrics. Develop plans to support growth and to enable the business to scale efficiently.
Influencing senior leaders across Amazon - proactively communicate program vision, customer impact, progress and plans, and align with Amazon's core principles.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- 3+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience
- 1+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
- 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++ experience
- 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture experience
- 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- 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…