Software Dev Engineer II, Amazon Ads - Publisher Technology

- 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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 1+ years of experience delivering software using Scrum or similar Agile methodologies
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
- 2+ years of experience building applications using the AWS cloud or similar
- Has a passion for operational and engineering excellence
- Excellent judgment, organizational, and problem-solving skills
- Exceptional interpersonal communication skills, able to tell a narrative with data.
- Proven success in solving complex, challenging, ambiguous technical problems
- Proven success in delivering results in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment
- Industry experience in advertising

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/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.
Amazon is continuing to invest in its Advertising business to tap into the growing online advertising market. The Publisher Technologies (PubTech) team builds and operates extensible services that empower 1P Publishers to improve the monetization of their customer experiences, along with the experiences themselves. We bias toward standards-based and flexible designs that allow Publishers the ability to invent on top of our solutions and to interoperate well with other advertising technology providers; both internal and external.

The PubTech Data, Insights, and Analytics team enables faster data-driven decision making for Publishers and Monetization teams by providing them with near real time data, data management tools, actionable insights, and an easy-to-use reporting experience. Our data products provide Publishers and Monetization teams with the capabilities necessary to better monetize their supply.

We are looking to hire a software engineer to join us in building out the PubTech Observability and Troubleshooting technology from its infancy. This technology will empower teams to better understand what is happening in their systems, why it is happening, and where it is happening. Observability infers the internal state of the systems based on their external outputs. This is a unique opportunity with greenfield development to influence the vision, capabilities, and architecture. If you are interested in making a huge impact on a rapidly expanding team, come join us as we work hard, have fun, and make history.



Key job responsibilities
You are a technical leader with a track record of shipping highly scalable software and work with a wide range of technologies, programming languages, and systems. You ship error-free software and own the day-to-day maintenance and evolution of systems that serve the needs of our growing base of customers.

To be successful in this role, you are able to write high-quality application and infrastructure code that is well-documented and simple to maintain. You drive and uphold software best practices throughout the development lifecycle, with a strong focus for operational and engineering excellence. You lead, or participate in design reviews with product and technical stakeholders. You constructively identify bottlenecks and propose resolutions. You participate in team planning, reviewing code, analyzing metrics, and triaging tickets. You work autonomously as a self-sufficient contributor.