About the position
Advertisers will spend tens of billion dollars this year leveraging Amazon advertising this year to help grow their business. We are looking for exceptional software engineers to build the next generation of tools these advertisers depend on to control their advertising efforts across multiple ad products in the Amazon Advertising portfolio. As part of the self service advertising products organization our team focuses on the 80% of advertisers that are small and medium size businesses and deliver simple, intuitive solutions for helping them grow their reach and sales. This important work requires that we build redundant, highly available systems that scale massively to ensure our advertisers can enhance discoverability for all the products they sell online and connect Amazon customers with sellers and selection anywhere in the world. We are increasingly focused on helping our advertisers reach new markets and build a strong brand presence which means we must think globally and be strategic about how we build our software to operate 24/7/365 in over 20 countries.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and own Tier1 services that determine eligibility for an ad to be served.
- Work with multiple software engineers and other team members, Product and Program Managers to design and develop new ways of providing exciting and compelling experiences.
- Measure success by the quality of execution, pace of innovation, and increased satisfaction delivered.
- Set technical vision for the services across Performance Advertising Core Engine.
- Advise senior leadership of technical opportunities and pitfalls to ensure long term rapid delivery of features.
- Lead and inspire teammates to raise the standards in the quality of the software they build.
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
- Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
