Description

Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital display advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers on Amazon.com, across our other owned and operated sites, on other high quality sites across the web, and on millions of Kindles, tablets, and mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, world-class advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place.

A key driver for our growth is our understanding of the needs of advanced advertisers. Advanced advertisers are agencies and self-service advertisers with scaled marketing needs, as they manage a large portfolio of clients, products, campaigns or brands. This engineering leadership role is focused on delivering toward the data analytics needs of this customer segment. Timely and relevant insights delivered via scalable products help advertisers grow business on Amazon.

Are you passionate about using Big Data to build customer trust and grow new business? Global advertisers rely on our team's performance insights to drive future investment in Amazon's Advertising Platform. We’re looking for strong Engineering Leader that can operate large scale systems leveraging technologies such as Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Spark, Hive and Presto, as well as AWS services like EKS, to build the next generation Petabyte scale analytics and visualization platform. If this sounds interesting, we’d love to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with internal teams that retrieve ad performance data from Reporting Analytics Engine. These teams power both synchronous interfaces (such as data tables and charts in campaign management UIs) and asynchronous reporting interfaces (such as downloadable reports and public APIs).

• Engage with various advertising program teams to influence their vision and enable new features that can provide near real time access to comprehensive data at Amazon scale.

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

• The ability to work on a diverse team

Impact and Career Growth:

• Have an opportunity to build, lead and grow a team of 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 effective and stretch their imagination

• Ability to get a lot done in a startup environment with a mix of ambiguity and opportunity

Be part of a team of industry-leading experts that are building and operating novel solutions for the most advanced brands and advertisers working with Amazon. The solutions that we build will set new standards for quality and efficiency in advertising. We are re-thinking the way that companies can scale their businesses with Amazon.

Basic Qualifications

• 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

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. 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.