Sr Software Development Engineer - Sponsored Brands, Advertiser & Partner Experience, SB APEX

- 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.
About Amazon Ads:
Amazon Ads operates at the intersection of e-commerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers of all types to 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 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 Brands is on a mission to make Amazon the best in class destination for shoppers to discover, engage and build affinity with brands while making shopping delightful and personal.

Our team is responsible for evolving the value proposition of Sponsored Brands to drive brand performance advertising at scale, helping brands acquire new customers and sustainably grow customer lifetime value. This includes building advertiser controls, experiences and recommendations and making them available via Amazon Ads Console and Amazon Ads API. We enable advertisers to express what they want to achieve, and translate that into high performance advertising strategies. We succeed when advertisers are able to sustainably grow their brand and business at scale with our advertising product(s).

About This Role:
We are looking for an experienced senior software engineer who is excited about being part of new initiatives, is not afraid to dive deep and define product technical strategy and architecture. In this role you will work with business partners to design, implement and launch new ad solutions based on business objectives and timelines. You will be responsible for the architecture, design and implementation of highly scalable distributed systems that provide availability, scalability and latency guarantees. The right candidate will possess strong technical skills, can dive deep with demonstrated experience leading medium to large distributed services, and will want to have a lasting impact in the Advertising space. You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. This is a unique opportunity to stand at the intersection of e-commerce, advertising and state-of-the-art ML techniques.

Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon Store businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.

Key job responsibilities
- Develop highly scalable service to process millions of requests per day and solve complex software systems problems by leverage state-of-the-art technology.
- 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.
- Have unique exposure to technologies used in search / advertising / e-commerce platforms.
- Work closely with our data-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 MeetUps, Hackathons and Conferences.