Senior Software Development Engineer - Amazon Advertising

Join Amazon's Advertising Team as a Senior Software Development Engineer

Are you passionate about software engineering and eager to work on one of Amazon’s fastest-growing advertising businesses? We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to join our Sponsored Display Frontier Team within Amazon Advertising. This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of e-commerce, advertising, and state-of-the-art machine learning techniques.

About Amazon Advertising

Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital display advertising solutions. Our goal is to help 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.

About the Sponsored Display Team

Sponsored Display is Amazon Advertising’s first self-service display advertising offering. With the introduction of Sponsored Display, any advertiser can set up display campaigns to run on key placements across Amazon websites and apps, devices, third-party websites, and mobile apps. Our team is highly nimble, moving quickly to release new features and capabilities.

Role and Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will:

• Translate functional requirements into robust, scalable, supportable solutions that work well within the overall system architecture.
• Evaluate and make decisions about the use of new or existing software products and tools.
• Apply big data technologies for data extraction, transformation, and loading (Spark, PySpark, Hadoop, MapReduce, etc).
• Analyze data using analytics tools such as Redshift and ElasticSearch to develop hypotheses and design data-driven solutions for our business.
• Work closely with our science and product managers to design experiments with machine learning/deep learning techniques to improve predictive models and infrastructure.
• Establish the best processes and drive improvements in design, development, and operations.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers on design, coding, troubleshooting, and operational excellence.

Basic Qualifications

• 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 as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ 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.

Why Amazon?

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Join us and be part of a team that is building a unique, world-class advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer.