Software Development Manager, Advanced Analytics

Company: Amazon
Location: Seattle
Posted on: April 1, 2026

Job Description:

We build advanced analytic solutions to support the measurement and intelligence needs of Amazon's most strategic advertising customers — Holding Companies, independent agencies, technology integrators, and large-scale advertisers. We own and operate the premier advanced analytics capability within Amazon Ads, delivering cutting-edge AI, modeling, and data solutions that empower our customers to make smarter, faster, and more impactful advertising decisions. In the programmatic advertising industry, transparency has become increasingly critical as the ecosystem expands with multiple layers in the ad selling and buying supply chain. Log-level data—granular, non-aggregated, event-level information from ad servers, exchanges, and SSPs—provides advertisers with unprecedented visibility into individual ad impressions, bid prices, viewability scores, and supply path. This role will build the foundational infrastructure to capture, process, store, and analyze this raw data at petabyte scale, empowering our organization to understand auction competitiveness, identify revenue opportunities, optimize floor pricing, and ensure supply chain transparency. Candidates for this position should be creative, demonstrated leader with excellent analytical abilities and a strong drive to deliver results. This opportunity requires deep technical, problem-solving and communication skills. Key Responsibilities: - Build and own end-to-end log-level data infrastructure capturing raw, unaggregated event data for advertising measurement and attribution - Define technical vision and multi-year roadmap for LLD systems supporting billions of daily ad requests, bid responses, impressions, clicks, and conversions - Drive architectural decisions for high-throughput, low-latency data ingestion and processing pipelines handling millions of rows and hundreds of columns per day - Establish data quality standards, monitoring, and operational excellence practices to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and timeliness - Build, manage, and develop innovative engineers including making hiring recommendations and guiding and mentoring engineers and product and program managers within and outside of the team. - Deliver robust and scalable solutions toward your vision, invent or incorporate in new technologies when needed. - Oversee resource allocation to ensure appropriate business and staff development goals are met. - Build relationships with software development managers, engineers, product managers and technical program managers across upstream and downstream teams to influence product development for advertising traffic data. - Participate in strategic planning to achieve technical and business objectives and interact with customers, other leaders, and your team to construct your plan. - 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 - 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 an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, 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. The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits . USA, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually

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