Software Development Manager, Traffic Quality Job in Amazon

DESCRIPTION

Advertising at Amazon is a fast-growing multi-billion dollar business that spans across desktop, mobile and connected devices; encompasses ads on Amazon and a vast network of hundreds of thousands of third party publishers; and extends across US, EU and an increasing number of international geographies. The Ad Optimization group in Bangalore has the charter to build data-science focused products and platforms for Amazon Advertising. One of our key focus areas is Traffic Quality where we endeavor to identify non-human and invalid traffic within programmatic ad sources, and weed them out to ensure a high-quality advertising marketplace. We do this by building machine learning and optimization algorithms that operate at scale, and leverage nuanced features about user, context, and creative engagement to determine the validity of traffic. The challenge is to stay one step ahead by investing in deep analytics and developing new algorithms that address emergent attack vectors in a structured and scalable fashion. We are committed to building a long-term traffic quality solution that encompasses all Amazon advertising channels and provides state-of-the-art traffic filtering that preserves advertiser trust and saves them hundreds of millions of dollars of wasted spend.
Traffic quality systems process billions of ad-impressions and clicks per day by leveraging cutting-edge open source technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Redis and Amazon's cloud services like EC2, S3, EMR, DynamoDB and RedShift. We are looking for a dynamic and innovative engineering manager to lead the design, development and deployment of real-time and offline algorithms. You will own the machine learned model training pipelines, feature generation infrastructures, model inference libraries and systems to monitor the quality of detection across various dimensions. You will also own big data infrastructures that analyze terabyte scale data to identify sophisticated robotic activity after-the-fact.. As a leader on the team, you will have sound technical acumen, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and hire, build, and develop your team. You will be responsible for fostering a culture of experimentation towards delivering cutting-edge algorithms that materially improve customer experience
Primary responsibilities:
- Provide technical expertise and leadership throughout product life cycles, influence software engineers best practices for your team and own operational metrics
- Work with business leaders and product managers to define product requirements.
- Prioritize, communicate, maintain, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments
- Work with engineers to define technical requirements and architect and execute best-in-class implementations in agile manner
- Build and maintain world-class customer experience and operational excellence for your deliverables
- Hire, manage, mentor and grow a high performance team of Software Engineers

Amazon.com offers competitive salary, stock grants, health and other benefits.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

10+ years of relevant engineering experience
5+ years of experience, managing engineers and managers
Experience in partnering with product and program management teams
* Strong Computer Science background.
* A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
* 5+ years of software development experience
* Proficiency in Java/C++, Distributed systems and Object-oriented Design
* Experience developing robust, highly scalable distributed systems with stringent throughput/response times, using Java/C++, map-reduce and SQL relational databases
* You have strong communication and collaboration skills
* You have passion for building the best products and technologies
* You show strong ownership, bias for action and product sense.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Deep, hands-on technical expertise in high scale, service-oriented architectures
Exposure to Elastic Map Reduce and Machine Learning programs.
Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Clear, professional communication skills able to contribute to team discussions, knowing when to contribute, when to listen, and when to ask questions
Proactively and continually improve their level of knowledge about Amazons business and relevant technologies, and use this knowledge to deliver high quality, accurate software deliverables
Strong business and technical vision
Good understanding of web services