Senior Software Development Engineer, Sponsored Display Frontier Team, Amazon Advertising

- 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
- 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

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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.
Want to work on one of Amazon’s fastest growing advertising businesses? Are you a passionate senior software engineer with stellar experience in leading a team to deliver state-of-the art solutions used by millions of customers? Do you enjoy working with product leaders, scientists and rock-stars engineers to deliver ML powered software solutions that delight customers? if so, we would love to hear from you.
About Amazon Advertising:
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.
About our team:
Sponsored Display is Amazon Advertising’s first self-service display advertising offering. With the introduction of Sponsored Display, any advertiser – regardless of budget size, advertising experience, or technical expertise, can set up display campaigns to run on key placements across Amazon websites and apps (Amazon.com, Twitch, IMDb), devices (Kindle, Fire Tablet, Fire TV, Echo), third party websites (e.g., nytimes.com) and mobile apps.
As a startup product within Amazon Advertising, our team is highly nimble, moving quickly to release new features and capabilities. We also work cross-functionally to evangelize our offering – internally and externally – and educate the market on the value of Sponsored Display. As a start up product within Amazon Advertising, our team is highly nimble, moving quickly to release new features and capabilities.
About the role:
We are looking for a lead engineer who is excited about solving challenging engineering problems and not afraid to dive deep and define product technical strategy and architecture. In this role you will partner with product leaders, scientists and your peers to design, implement and launch new advertising features focusing on the processing data at Amazon scale. You will be responsible for the architecture, design and implementation of highly scalable distributed systems that provide availability, scalability and latency guarantees.
This is a unique opportunity to stand at the intersection of e-commerce, advertising and state-of-the-art ML techniques.


Key job responsibilities

* 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 hypothesis and design data driven solutions for our business
* Have unique exposure to technologies used in Display / advertising / E-commerce platforms
* Work closely with our science and product managers to design experiments with machine learning / deep learning techniques to improve predictive models and infrastructure and implement end-to-end solutions
* Establish the best processes and drive improvements in design, development and operations
* Mentor and guide junior engineers on design, coding, troubleshooting and operational excellence
* Be a member of the Amazon-wide Software Development Community, participating in internal and external hackathons, seminars, and conferences