Amazon Ads - Publisher Technology (PubTech) is a new and exciting program that is building supply side technology and pioneering novel experiences for our content publishers including audio (Alexa), video (Prime Video, Twitch, Freevee, FireTV), display (Amazon.com) to aid in their selling their inventory, optimize yield, and maximize monetization.

The Publisher Ad Server Infrastructure team within PubTech is engaged in developing highly scalable ad serving mechanisms along with necessary features to serve ads. Among others, this team is responsible for ad serving for large Alexa, Prime Video, live events such as TNF, Twitch etc.

Our scope has grown substantially and we are looking for a engineering leader to grow the team, build best in class publisher experiences and deliver a scalable system that will delight customers worldwide.

Key job responsibilities
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer who can build on our early success, pioneer new programs for customers, and help define our future. As a member of the Publisher Ad Server team, you will spend your time as a hands-on engineer directly impacting ad delivery, customer experience and revenue. You will play a key role in building software products and features from the ground up to experiment and enable different ad strategies. You will use a wide range of technologies, programming languages and systems. Your responsibilities will include all aspects of software development. You will have the freedom and encouragement to explore your own ideas and the reward of seeing your contributions benefit tens of millions of customers. This is very much Day 1 for PubTech so you would be joining an entrepreneurial and pioneering team that is building from scratch.

A day in the life
- Monitor AWS CloudWatch dashboards for key metrics, set up and refine CloudWatch Alarms for critical thresholds
- Analyze system performance using AWS X-Ray, Profiler and CloudWatch Logs
- Manage Auto Scaling groups for EC2 instances, Optimize Elastic Load Balancer configurations, Plan and implement horizontal scaling strategies
- Design and implement multi-AZ and multi-region architectures, Set up and maintain AWS Route 53 for DNS management and failover, Implement and test disaster recovery procedures
- Maintain and update AWS CloudFormation templates or Terraform configurations
- Maintain and improve the CI/CD pipeline using AWS CodePipeline




About the team
The Publisher Ad Server Infrastructure and Developer Experience (PAS InDEx) team is responsible for building and maintaining the underlying infrastructure and developer tooling for Publisher Ad Server. This includes handling API design/versioning, integration with internal and external systems (e.g. Inventory, Caching, Event Tracking and Amazon Ad Exchange), scaling and deployment, monitoring and logging, CI/CD pipelines, request cost optimization, and overall operational excellence.
PAS InDEx team is also responsible for easing the onboarding by a self-serve documentation repository, and automating the publisher onboarding.