Software Development Manager, Advertiser - Global Optimization

Software Development Manager, Advertiser Growth - Global Optimization

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The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through industry leading generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across  and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights.

We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising. Digital advertising represents a $400B+ global market, and Amazon's advertising business is one of the fastest-growing segments.

We are seeking an exceptional Software Development Manager to lead advertiser-facing initiatives that empower sellers to succeed with advertising across Amazon's global marketplaces. This is a high-impact leadership role at the intersection of artificial intelligence, large-scale distributed systems, and advertising technology, where you will drive the development of intelligent campaign structures, autonomous bidding systems, and sophisticated targeting capabilities that revolutionize how advertisers achieve their business objectives worldwide.

In this position, you will lead a team building next-generation advertising solutions that process billions of transactions daily across Amazon's tier-1 infrastructure. Your team's work directly impacts advertiser success by leveraging highly advanced techniques, including predictive modeling, generative AI, agent-based reinforcement learning, and advanced optimization methods to create autonomous systems for bidding, targeting, and campaign management. This autonomous approach enables advertisers to focus on strategy while our systems handle the complex, real-time decisions that maximize their return on investment across diverse global marketplaces.

Key job responsibilities

• Define long term vision and product strategy for Global Advertising for Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands Advertisers
• Lead the end-to-end architecture, design, and implementation of brand new products and features for global advertising
• Drive technical decisions around predictive modeling approaches, generative AI integration, multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms, control theory applications, and real-time optimization methods for autonomous bid adjustment
• Ensure system scalability, reliability, and performance for tier-1 production services handling mission-critical advertising workloads across multiple AWS regions
• Establish engineering best practices for ML operations (MLOps), including model training pipelines, A/B testing frameworks, continuous deployment, monitoring, and automated rollback mechanisms
• Design fault-tolerant systems with fallback strategies, and graceful degradation to maintain advertiser trust during system anomalies
• Balance technical debt with feature velocity, making strategic decisions about when to refactor versus when to iterate
• Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers and applied scientists working on advanced autonomous systems and agentic AI

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of designing or architecting 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

• 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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