Software Development Engineer, Amazon

- 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
- 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
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

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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.
Are you interested in building a green field product opportunity within Amazon Advertising? Do you want to have direct and immediate impact on millions of customers every day? If you are a self-starter, enjoy designing large scale distributed and orchestration systems, and are intrigued by ambiguous problems, this is a unique opportunity to build a new initiative from scratch with some of the best full-stack engineers at Amazon. We pioneer the usage of modern full-stack technologies at Amazon scale. Join today and you will transform how advertisers run performance campaigns on Amazon DSP.

Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will deal with mostly Java for backend and React/JavaScript for front-end, various persistence technologies like DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, and multitude of native AWS offerings to analyze big data (e.g. SageMaker, EMR). This is an opportunity to Think Big and create an engaging experience on new products, which our customers will love. You will have flexibility to drive changes to our front-end, backend and science infrastructure, and be able to work with different skillset including big data and engineering to build new features. This is a large initiative that spans across multiple existing and to be formed engineering and product teams within the Advertising organization.

A day in the life
You are enthusiastic about helping in defining our products, shaping ambiguous business goals into working software solutions. You are comfortable taking initiative and working across teams in a relatively unstructured environment. You have well-honed, insightful architectural design instincts, and enjoy building simple and elegant systems that will scale to support millions of users. Passion for the customer and their experience with our products is a key requirement for you.

About the team
Our team is responsible for full-stack implementation and integration of new advertising products, which power the ad measurement of online and offline ad conversions. This is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor and help shape our advertising technologies, products and business. Our products enable advertisers to bring their first-party data into amazon eco system, helping advertisers adapt to new trends and consumer behaviors, ultimately ensuring their campaigns continue to resonate with the right audience.