About the position
Amazon's Sponsored Brands Advertising org stands at the forefront of digital commerce innovation, seamlessly blending advertising expertise with e-commerce excellence. Our platform empowers businesses to connect with millions of Amazon shoppers through sophisticated advertising solutions, spanning across Amazon.com and affiliated platforms. With our customer-first philosophy, we're revolutionizing how brands engage with shoppers, creating immersive and personalized discovery experiences that transform the traditional shopping journey. Our team crafts visually compelling, targeted advertising experiences that help brands capture customer attention during crucial decision-making moments, resulting in billions of daily ad impressions and millions of customer engagements. We are seeking an experienced and innovative software engineer to join our team and drive new initiatives in ad technology. You should be passionate about defining product technical strategies and architectures, and ready to collaborate with business partners to design, implement, and launch cutting-edge ad solutions. You will be responsible for developing highly scalable distributed systems that guarantee availability, scalability, and low latency. We're looking for someone with strong technical skills and proven experience leading large-scale distributed services. The ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment, handle ambiguity, and manage competing priorities is essential. This role offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of e-commerce, advertising, and state-of-the-art machine learning techniques. If you're excited about making a lasting impact in the advertising space and possess the skills to excel in a fast-paced, innovative environment, we want to hear from you.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop highly scalable services processing millions of daily requests.
- Solve complex software challenges using state-of-the-art technology.
- Translate functional requirements into robust, scalable solutions.
- Evaluate and select appropriate software products and tools.
- Gain exposure to search, advertising, and e-commerce platform technologies.
- Collaborate with data scientists and product managers on machine learning experiments.
- Implement end-to-end solutions to improve predictive models and infrastructure.
- Establish best practices and drive improvements in design, development, and operations.
- Mentor junior engineers in design, coding, troubleshooting, and operational excellence.
- Participate in Amazon's Software Development Community through MeetUps, Hackathons, and Conferences.
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
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Sharp problem solving skills and ability to convert ambiguous requirements to structured solutions and actions
- Experience communicating requirements and technical designs with both technical and non-technical audience including leadership
- Experience with Amazon Web Services, Machine Learning & Advertising is a plus
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
