About the position
Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities. Our systems and algorithms operate on one of the world's largest product catalogs, matching shoppers with advertised brands with a high relevance bar and strict latency constraints. We work hand-in-hand with Machine Learning scientists to come up with novel solutions that deliver highly relevant ads. We consistently strive to improve the customer search and detail page experiences. You will drive appropriate technology choices for the business, lead the way for continuous innovation, and shape the future of e-commerce. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on the future of the Amazon vision.
Responsibilities
- Drive the technical direction of our offerings and solutions.
- Design, code, troubleshoot, and support scalable services, machine-learning pipelines, and online serving systems.
- Handle millions of requests per day while maintaining response latencies of milliseconds.
- Work closely with PEs and applied scientists to optimize the performance of machine-learning models and infrastructure.
- Implement end-to-end solutions and take ownership of what you create.
- Mentor junior engineers and guide them to deliver to their full potential.
Requirements
- Strong experience in software engineering and development.
- Proficiency in designing and implementing scalable systems.
- Experience with machine learning concepts and pipelines.
- Ability to troubleshoot and optimize performance of services.
- Strong coding skills in relevant programming languages.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with advertising technology or e-commerce platforms.
- Familiarity with high operational standards and SLA requirements.
- Experience mentoring or leading junior engineers.
