Software Development Manager Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Passionate about Big Data and Distributed Systems? Interested in building new state-of-the-art products at Petabyte scale? Be part of a team of industry leading experts that operates one of the largest big data analytics platforms at Amazon. We are responsible for end to end processing of impressions, views, and clicks as well as video interaction events or rich media events in ads. We are applying the latest machine learning and big data technologies available on terabytes of data a day (over 15B new events per day) operating Petabyte size clusters. Our data must always be the fastest, most high fidelity data as it is both billable, critical to checking the heartbeat of a campaign and changes to made to the campaigns while in flight, and part of the measure of success for a campaign.

The charter of this team is to ensure events are ready for summarization and meet industry standards and expectations. In essence this function will define if the primary event, an impression, meets the criteria for publication and then determines the same for any secondary events such as views, clicks, and rich media interactions.

Candidates for this position should be creative, demonstrated leader with superior analytical abilities and an expeditious drive to deliver results. This opportunity requires deep technical, problem-solving and communication skills.

Key Responsibilities:

* Define and drive the multi-year vision for a big data processing platform.
* Build, manage, and develop world-class engineers including hiring recommendations and guide and mentor engineers and project managers within and outside of the team.
* Drive project initiatives to deliver robust and scalable solutions toward this vision, incorporate in new technologies as appropriate.
* Build relationships with Development Managers, Engineers and Technical Project Managers across upstream and downstream teams to influence product development to support or enhance Ads traffic data.
* Ensure high quality design reviews which meet business and architectural goals and drive critical feedback on architecture and design issues.
* Oversee resource allocation to ensure appropriate business and staff development goals are met.
* Participate in strategic planning to achieve technical and business with team, leadership chain, and with customers