Software Development Manager, Privacy Safe Measurement

Application deadline: Apr 13, 2026

Passionate about Big Data and Distributed Systems? Interested in building new state-of-the-art products using AWS Services? Be part of a team of industry leading experts that operates one of the largest big data analytics systems at Amazon. We provide privacy safe measurement analytics to all of Amazon's advertising partners.

Candidates for this position should be creative, demonstrated leaders with superior analytical abilities and a strong drive to deliver results. This opportunity requires deep technical, problem-solving, and communication skills. We encourage applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

Key job responsibilities

• Define and drive the multi-year vision for a big data platform.
• Build, manage, and develop truly 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.
• Ensure high quality design reviews that 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.
• 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.

About the team

The Advertising Analytics Platform is hiring SDMs!

Are you passionate about using Big Data to grow new businesses? Global advertisers rely on our team's performance insights to drive future investment in Amazon's Advertising Platform. We’re looking for a strong Software Engineer Manager that can combine open source technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Spark and Presto, as well as AWS services like Elastic Map Reduce (EMR), Kinesis and DynamoDB to build the next generation of our analytics and visualization platform. You’ll be the single-threaded owner of video advertising traffic metrics. If this sounds interesting, we’d love to hear from you!

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 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, CO, Boulder - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually