Amazon is looking to solve challenging technical and business problems within its advertising business, specifically for Sponsored Products, by optimizing systems and ad placements to match advertiser demand with publisher supply. The goal is to help buyers discover new products and provide an efficient advertising platform for sellers.
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 they 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.
- Drive technical strategy and architecture at both the infrastructure and application tiers.
- Design and build large scale and low latency infrastructure to serve Amazon customers based on deep-learning and other advanced machine learning approaches.
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 be an example of Amazon's leadership principles and work to grow more leaders within your group.
- Analytical and data-driven: You solve problems in ways that are backed up with data.
- Team obsessed: You find and cultivate talent to be capable of achieving results.
