Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth.
Requirements
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams 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 in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experiences with online model inference infra and LLM optimization
Responsibilities
- Own technical vision and direction: You identify and mitigate risks, construct project schedules, and prepare status reports; you embrace performance metrics and measurement techniques because you help you assess how well system-related services are running.
- Build and grow your team: You will be accountable for building an engineering team that delivers results. This means you will wear a lot of hats - from coaching individuals, to leading technical discussions, recruiting, establishing processes, and so on.
- Collaborate on product direction: You will build and maintain strong relationships between engineering and partner disciplines (Applied Science, Product, User Experience, QA) to ensure that we are focused on delivering the right product for customers.
- Lead beyond your team: You will be a key part of growing community of engineering leaders who support their teams and contribute to the overall growth of our product development organization. You will share your best practices and technical acumen in order to drive technology decisions across our organization.
- Own your own shop: Our products reach hundreds of millions of customers around the world. We run operations and the services your team delivers must meet high standards for operational excellence. Our teams own and operate the systems we build.
- You will own the Sponsored Products Search Relevance that identifying the relevant ads to surface to customers when they search for products on Amazon.
- You will own the serving infrastructure that support millions of internet users and handle billions of queries per day, all delivered in milliseconds.
Other
- You will assemble and lead a team of engineers to solve challenging technical and business problems.
- Your experience in leadership and coaching will help you grow the individuals within your team and foster a transparent, collaborative development environment.
- You will collaborate with applied/NLP scientists and principal engineers within the team and across disciplines as part of your daily job.
- You will be an example of Amazon's leadership principles and work to grow more leaders within your group.
- Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
