What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Development Manager, Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) position at Amazon?
DESCRIPTION
Do you enjoy leading teams of engineers working on high-scale, complex, international solutions? Do you enjoy end-to-end responsibility, working on business ideas as well as technology, software engineering, and operations? Then you might be a great fit to join us as a Software Development Manager in Advertising.
Amazon Marketing Cloud teams build big data secure, cloud-based analytics systems in which advertisers can easily perform analytics across multiple data sets to generate insights to take programmatic actions. Inputs can include an advertiser’s own data sets, as well as their Amazon Advertising campaign events, such as impressions, clicks, and conversions. AMC reports can help with campaign measurement, audience refinement, supply optimization, and more, enabling advertisers to make more informed decisions about their cross-channel marketing investments. Our services ingest billions of behavioral signals every day. Speed, scale, and accuracy are critical to our success.
You will lead an Agile team in our development center in Boulder, Colorado, growing new green field initiatives. You will be responsible for core engineering to build a control and operational plane for a Software As a Service ( SAAS) Product for our customers using native Amazon Web Services (AWS). Your team will have end-to-end ownership of business, technology, and operations, giving you the responsibility and autonomy to ensure success. Your systems will meet remarkably high standards of performance and reliability, and will operate at massive scale, 24x7. Successful candidates will have a background in software development, most likely with a Computer Science or related degree. You are detail- and customer-oriented and have excellent problem solving abilities. You are a confident people manager with a track record of growing high performance teams.
The position offers exceptional opportunities for every candidate to grow their technical and non-technical skills. If you are selected, you have the opportunity to really make a difference to our business by inventing, enhancing and building world class systems, delivering results, and working on exciting and challenging projects.
Key job responsibilities
- Earn trust across different levels and multiple groups of a large organization
- Work with technology and digital media
- Exceptional ability to analyze and interpret large amounts of data in order to make recommendations for improvement
- Strong oral and written communication skills, as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, solve problems, scope technical requirements and prioritize project work
- Sound business judgment, proven ability to influence others, and strong analytical thinking skills
- Ability to think strategically and act tactically
- Have an opportunity to lead and grow a team engineers
- Opportunity to grow and broaden your leadership and technical skills as you work in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and product innovation
- Change the way customers use data to drive business success
- Have fun and inspire team members to enjoy work, be action-oriented and stretch their imagination
- Ability to get a lot done in a startup environment with a mix of ambiguity and opportunity
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
- 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
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.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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.
Salary : $166,400 - $287,700
