Software Development Manager, Ads Agent Fabric (Ads AI Core Infrastructure)

Description
Advertisers and advertising tools are rapidly adopting AI agents to plan, optimize, and achieve marketing goals. The Ads Agent Fabric team’s mission is to deliver a common infrastructure supporting all advertising-aware model-based applications (i.e., agents) and accelerate development of agentic applications for our advertisers. The team is responsible for an agent-builder SDK with pre-integrated Ads features, agent-builder tools that accelerate develop, test, and model evaluation lifecycle, and a fully-managed runtime with integrated access to the Ads services, data, and foundational models.
As the SDM on the Agent Fabric team, you will lead a team of engineers in the design and delivery of critical infrastructure components that enable Amazon Ads to build and deploy AI agents at scale. You'll work at the intersection of distributed systems, machine learning infrastructure, and developer tooling, defining technical strategy for how thousands of advertisers interact with AI-powered advertising solutions. This role requires deep technical expertise in building scalable platforms and comfort with ambiguity as you'll be building in an emerging space where best practices and technical requirements are still be defined. You will need strong system design skills, ability to hire and develop a team of engineers, define technical strategy, and capability to influence senior stakeholders on architecture decisions and roadmap planning.
Key job responsibilities
- Own the full software development lifecycle from design to production launch of core infrastructure components and services
- Manage a team of software engineers from junior to senior levels
- Build highly scalable, low-latency infrastructure supporting real-time agent execution
- Define technical standards and best practices for a team of engineers across development, testing, and deployment
- Partner with applied scientists to translate research innovations into production-ready services
- Lead architecture reviews and provide technical guidance to engineers across multiple teams
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
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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, NY, New York - 203,400.00 - 275,200.00 USD annually