Software Development Engineer, Account Management, Ads AI Core Infrastructure (ACI)

Amazon • New York, NY

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About The Position

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and
we drive the end-to-end lifecycle of advertiser registration, account
management, access controls and ad-product eligibility that are gateway to start
using Amazon Ads. These products define how advertisers get started and interact
with ad-products across their lifecycle, impacting thousands of partners and
millions of advertisers (and growing) globally, with over many registrations a
year and millions of users actively engaging today.

You will drive key business metrics that include number of advertisers
registered for Amazon Ads, measurement of the registration customer experience
(conversion rate, success rate, time to register etc.), and strategic
initiatives such as such as global advertising, new ad-product launches and
incremental revenue from onboarding new advertiser segments.

You will build Tier-1 services to handle millions of requests per day, while
maintaining response latencies in the milliseconds and meeting strict SLA
requirements (high operational standards). You will develop distributed
solutions with service oriented architecture to build high performance platforms
to service world's largest selection to millions of customers. Our systems and
algorithms operate on massive datasets using distributed frameworks. In this
role you will be design new and rebuild existing solutions for the fast growing
scale of the next generation of advertising services. You will have the
opportunity to work with Principal engineers and to mentor and grow junior
engineers.

You will not merely go through the full software development cycle but more
importantly drive appropriate technology choices for the business, lead the way
for continuous innovation, and shape the future of e-commerce.

We are a highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving team building a high
growth business. We are entrepreneurial and have a bias for action with a broad
mandate to experiment and innovate. This is an opportunity to make a significant
impact on the future of the Amazon vision in the Advertising business.

A successful candidate will have the satisfaction of seeing their work on the
Amazon.com website and numerous other websites, where it will be viewed by tens
of millions of customers and will drive quantifiable revenue impact, broaden
their technical skills and work in an environment that thrives on creativity,
experimentation, and product innovation. A role with direct impact on the
success of advertising at Amazon.

The Account Management team plays an important role in unlocking new business
opportunities for Amazon Ads. We operate at scale as anything an advertiser does
uses an account and data we provide across a range of high-TPS, low-latency
APIs.

We drive key business metrics that include number of advertisers registered for
Amazon Ads, measurement of the registration customer experience (conversion
rate, success rate, time to register etc.) and strategic initiatives such as
initiatives like non-endemic advertising, new ad-product launches (E.g.
Sponsored TV), global advertising, Full Funnel+, SMB Display & Video etc

We are a fun-loving team and enjoy quarterly team outings!

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

Responsibilities

• SDE-2s are autonomous contributors to their team’s software.
• You deliver working features spanning the full software lifecycle including working backwards from customers, software design, implementation, testing, and deployment, operations, and documentation.
• SDE 2s coach others on producing high quality code, using processes such as code review as a teaching mechanism.
• They ensure that when their software fails, the root cause is identified and eliminated with a permanent fix.
• They ensure the software they produce can be maintained and extended by those not familiar with the code by writing clear documentation and making good design choices.
• SDE 2s participate in an inclusive, constructive dialogue with other team members and members of closely related teams.
• They train new team members on how their software is constructed, how it operates, and how it fits into the bigger picture.

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level