Software Development Manager, Autonomous Agentic Bidding

• 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 and applied scientists working on advanced autonomous systems and agentic AI

• 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

• 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

equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits