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.

The Supply and Identity Data platform team builds and operates petabyte-scale data systems to allow advertising business stakeholders to get the data they need quickly to solve their business problems. The data systems must be scalable so that the data pipelines can run quickly, reliably, and cost effectively to generate business data from a large amount of input data. We are looking for a senior software development engineer with a passion for dealing with internet scale datasets to work on Amazon's analytics platform for advertising. Our systems are based on a blend of AWS, open-source, and third-party technologies, using ones that make the best sense in a given scenario.

Key job responsibilities

• Work closely with a group of highly talented and motivated software and data engineers who build systems and models used to analyze petabytes of data

• Work on analyzing exchange bidding behavior and many other exciting problems posed by a advertising business

• Invent ways to overcome technical limitations and enable new forms of analyses that drive key business decisions

• Investigate new technologies and champion adoption within the team

• Work on a platform built on Elastic MapReduce, Spark, Kinesis, Glue catalog and S3

• Mentor junior team members

• Directly participate in setting the vision and objectives for strategic Amazon goals, in alignment with business needs and ad market dynamics.

• Find new ways to use variety of Amazon's data sets to help one of the fastest growing businesses within Amazon

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

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, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.