About the position
Amazon Advertising is dedicated to driving measurable outcomes for brand advertisers, agencies, authors, and entrepreneurs. Our ad solutions—including sponsored, display, video, and custom ads—leverage Amazon’s innovations and insights to find, attract, and engage intended audiences throughout their daily journeys. With a range of flexible pricing and buying models, including self-service, managed service, and programmatic ad buying, these solutions help businesses build brand awareness, increase product sales, and more. We are looking for a talented Software Development engineer to join a high-caliber team delivering products and services for Amazon AdTech supply business. This role is for you if are self-driven, experienced, motivated software engineer with a proven track record of building low-latency / high volume ad serving systems and services. Bonus if you are also comfortable handling big data queries and analytics - that is an integral part of what we do. We use Java and AWS technologies heavily.
Responsibilities
- Think big, bringing fresh ideas and interactions optimizes for a healthier publisher ecosystem.
- Take a long-term view of architecture, proactively fixing deficiencies and/or proposing larger projects.
- Understand the business impact of your systems and show good judgment when making technical trade-offs.
- Be a key influencer in team strategy.
- Bring perspective and provide context to guide future technology choices.
- Write software that is easy for others to contribute to.
- Drive engineering best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and set standards.
- Find the best way forward and influence others to follow that path (build consensus).
- Contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices.
- Ensure your team is stronger because of your presence, but does not require your presence to be successful.
Requirements
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice-to-haves
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
- Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
