Sdm, Traffic Quality

7+ years of engineering experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management 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 designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

Advertising at Amazon is a fast-growing, multi-billion dollar business. It spans desktop, mobile and connected devices; encompasses ads on Amazon and a vast network of third-party publishers; and extends across the US, EU, APAC, and an increasing number of international geographies. Within Amazon Advertising, the Supply Quality (SQ) program offers Amazon Advertising customers a mix of industry leading 1P and 3P products for: (i) Pre-bid filtering of invalid and brand unsafe inventory (ii) Controls to manage exposure to fraudulent, brand unsafe, and non-viewable impressions (iii) Contextual infrastructure and signals, and (iv) Measurement and reporting of supply quality-related metrics.

The Traffic Quality program leverages proprietary and third-party technology to provide invalid traffic (IVT) filtration capabilities to Amazon Advertising customers. IVT is traffic that is fraudulent, involuntary, non-human or duplicate, and has no value to advertisers. TQ solutions filter IVT at the pre-bid stage to prevent invalid spend, as well as at post-impression and click stage to remove any residual IVT.

The TQ program is looking for an Software Development Manager (SDM) to support its engineering team. The SDM will define the engineering vision for the team and build the team and culture to deliver this vision. The SDM will balance between building extensible systems that cater to the continuously evolving and ambiguous IVT landscape, and delivering rapid and recurring business impact. You will work closely with business stakeholders and leaders across Amazon Advertising to understand and refine how TQ interacts with their systems to achieve maximum efficiency. You possess excellent interpersonal skills, strong written communication skills, are able to develop and coach people, and oversee a portfolio of key business initiatives.

Key job responsibilities
- Define a long-term engineering vision for a TQ sub-program driven fundamentally from the needs of our customers and internal stakeholders, translating that direction into specific plans for the team. Interpret complex and interrelated data points and anecdotes to build and communicate this vision to stakeholders and the team.
- Oversee the design, development, and implementation of production level code that handles billions of ad requests. Own the full development cycle: idea, design, prototype, impact assessment, A/B testing (including interpretation of results) and production deployment.
- Collaborate with scientists, product managers and related teams in Amazon Advertising to find technical solutions to complex IVT detection problems.
- Collaborate with industry bodies and 3P vendors to build on existing partnerships.
- Improve upon existing systems to achieve efficiency in the operation load and footprint.
- Influence and continuously improve a sustainable team culture that exemplifies Amazon’s leadership principles. Coach team members to help them achieve their potential. Hire bar raising talent as the team expands.

Bangalore, KA, IND
- 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