Software Development Engineer, Sponsored Products

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and
developing a collection of self-service performance advertising products that
drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our
Retail and Marketplace businesses for driving long-term growth. We deliver
billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh
ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative
and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad
mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with
a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.

Sponsored Products Core Supply Infrastructure team is looking for a Software
Development Engineer to build large scale, distributed systems that will bridge
the gap between advertiser demand and publisher supply on Amazon. We are
developing a first of its kind platform that will allow advertising programs
across Amazon to provide our customers with a coherent and holistic product
discovery experience across organic and sponsored selection.

If you are looking to make an impact, this is the team for you. You will not
only have the satisfaction of seeing your work directly on the Amazon website
where it will be viewed by tens of millions of customers and drive quantifiable
revenue impact, but will also have the opportunity to help shape our engineering
and product roadmaps. We are not bound by legacy systems and have a broad
mandate to experiment, which gives us great flexibility as we design and develop
our services. You will have an opportunity to contribute across the full stack,
growing and broadening your technical skills as you work in an environment that
thrives on creativity, experimentation, and product innovation.

About the team
The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the
advertising landscape through the latest generative AI technologies,
revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with
brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing
advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence
to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and
optimization to performance analysis and customer insights.

We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and
intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the
shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by
solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with
AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising.

Requirements

• 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
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Nice To Haves

• 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

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level