Sr.Software Dev Engineer, Amazon Ads Exchange
Amazon
DESCRIPTION
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 Ads Exchange team. 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.
In this role, you will: - Think big, bringing fresh ideas and interactions optimizes for a healthier publisher ecosystem.
You take a long-term view of architecture, proactively fixing deficiencies and/or proposing larger projects.
You understand the business impact of your systems and show good judgment when making technical trade-offs.
You are a key influencer in team strategy.
You bring perspective and provide context to guide future technology choices.
Your code submissions and approach to work are exemplary. You write software that is easy for others to contribute to.
You drive engineering best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and set standards.
When confronted with discordant views, you are able to find the best way forward and influence others to follow that path (build consensus).
You contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices.
You ensure your team is stronger because of your presence, but does not require your presence to be successful
Joining this team, you’ll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, while leveraging the resources of Amazon.com (AMZN), one of the world's leading Internet companies.
Internal job description
Basic qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science with advanced degrees preferred.
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Experience building high-performance, highly-available, and scalable distributed systems, in a UNIX environment
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers ·
- Deep technical expertise and hands-on architectural understanding of cloud-scale distributed and service-oriented architectures.
Preferred qualifications
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Master’s degree and/or PhD preferred in mathematics, computer science, or related discipline ·
- Experience in building and driving adoption of new tools ·
- A deep understanding of software development life cycle and a good track record of shipping software on time ·