Amazon · 1 day ago
Software Development Manager, Autonomous Agentic Bidding
Palo Alto, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$166K/yr - $288K/yr
7+ years expAmazon is seeking an exceptional Software Development Manager to lead the Autonomous Agentic Bidding team within the Autonomous Sponsored Products and Brands organization. This high-impact leadership role involves architecting and implementing autonomous bidding systems that process billions of advertising transactions daily, utilizing advanced techniques in machine learning and optimization to enhance advertiser success.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Define long term vision and product strategy for bidding systems for Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands
Lead the end-to-end architecture, design, and implementation of autonomous bidding systems processing billions of advertising transactions daily with high availability, low latency, and strict SLA requirements
Drive technical decisions around predictive modeling approaches, generative AI integration, multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms, control theory applications, and real-time optimization methods for autonomous bid adjustment
Ensure system scalability, reliability, and performance for tier-1 production services handling mission-critical advertising workloads across multiple AWS regions
Establish engineering best practices for ML operations (MLOps), including model training pipelines, A/B testing frameworks, continuous deployment, monitoring, and automated rollback mechanisms
Design fault-tolerant systems with appropriate circuit breakers, fallback strategies, and graceful degradation to maintain advertiser trust during system anomalies
Balance technical debt with feature velocity, making strategic decisions about when to refactor versus when to iterate
Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers and applied scientists working on advanced autonomous systems and agentic AI
Qualification
Required
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
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
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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