Software Development Engineer II - Advertising, Amazon, Amazon Marketing Stream
Amazon
Description
Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital display advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers on Amazon.com, across our other owned and operated sites, on other high-quality sites across the web, and on millions of Kindles, tablets, and mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, world-class advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place.
Our team enables the most advanced advertisers to scale through the application of cutting-edge technology and creativity. On this team you will have owner-level impact in shaping the future and the satisfaction of seeing your solutions making a big difference for our customers. We provide efficient bulk management of advertising campaigns in addition to building out new, real-time technologies for access to reporting and analytics data. These are highly-visible initiatives with a lot of space for intelligent architecture and green-field development.
Job Responsibilities:
- Design new, scalable, secure, and reliable features that drive real-time data solutions.
- Define requirements, create software designs, implement code to these specifications
- Provide thorough unit and integration testing, and support products while deployed and used by our stakeholders
- Propose innovative tools, frameworks, automations and processes that are used by the entire services team for development.
- Deep-dive into client or server systems to optimize for performance, maintainability, scalability, extensibility as needed.
- Collaborate with other engineers on the team, product managers, technical program managers, and partner teams.
- Dealing with ambiguity when solving problems
Impact and Career Growth:
- Have an opportunity to contribute across the full stack as well as new AWS technologies and big data
- Build the next generation of our solutions
- Opportunity to grow and broaden your technical skills as you work in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and product innovation.
Key job responsibilities
Be part of a team of industry-leading experts that are building and operating novel solutions for the most advanced brands and advertisers working with Amazon. The solutions that we build will set new standards for quality and efficiency in advertising. We are re-thinking the way that companies can scale their businesses with Amazon.
Key job responsibilities
- Be heavily involved with design and product teams to understand needs, propose features, create early prototypes and transform them into exciting experiences.
- Design new, scalable, secure, and reliable features that drive real-time data solutions.
- Know how to integrate data from a large number of services.
- Write clean, maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews
- Deep-dive into client or server systems to optimize for performance, maintainability, scalability, extensibility as needed.
- Propose innovative tools, frameworks, automations and processes that are used by the entire services team for development.
- Mentor team members to promote engineering excellence
- Collaborate with other engineers on the team, product managers, technical program managers, and partner teams.
- Dealing with ambiguity when solving problems
A day in the life
The primary focus for this role will be a mixture of system/code design as well as coding on a data streaming system that is first of it's kind in the Advertising space, transforming our customers data access method from a Pull-based to a Push-Based model. A day in the life of an engineer on this team starts with a daily stand-up with the team to discuss task progress, identify blockers and work closely with your peers to unblock each other, as needed. We work closely with our Technical Account Managers and Product Manager to identify customer pain points and a opportunities to delight our customers with features to add to our product. You will have an opportunity to own key projects, from design, through implementation and support, levering senior/principal engineers in the organization to ensure they are reliable, scalable, and maintainable.
About the team
This high performing, and very collaborative team is building a data streaming system that allows our Advertising customers to subscribe and receive the key data (streamed to their accounts) needed to manage their Advertising campaigns in the most optimal way. The result is our customers increasing the return on their Advertising spend.
Basic Qualifications
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- 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
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.
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