• 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

Amazon ads is looking for a Software Development Manager to join the team, to support the ad targeting and audience management for Amazon advertisers.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Manager at Amazon Ads, you will develop software in ambiguous or complex spaces. You will drive the development of solutions to improve customer experience. You will be a key contributor to team strategy. You will manage a team of software engineers.
A day in the life
The successful candidate will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on products used every day by customers around the world. The candidate will manage the development of advertising software products, meet with engineers, engineering managers, and product managers to launch advertising products. In this role, the candidate will manage timelines, prioritization and staffing/headcount for ad targeting and audience managment.
About the team
You will join a team that builds the technology to support our ad targeting and audience creation/management. We use machine learning to enhance our ad targeting and bring value to our advertisers and consumers. Our goal is to deliver the fastest, most reliable, and highest performing ad targeting solutions to help advertisers reach the most relevant audiences for their advertising campaigns.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Palo Alto, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

• 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 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.
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.