Software Development Engineer, Amazon Demand Side Platform

Amazon • Palo Alto, CA

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About The Position

Imagine having the opportunity to directly shape the experiences of millions of
Amazon customers every day. As part of our Advertising team, you'll do just that
- designing, building, and maintaining the large-scale systems that power
Amazon's advertising offerings.

This is no ordinary software engineering role. You'll be tackling complex,
industry-defining challenges, leveraging the right technologies to create
reliable, high-performance solutions from the ground up for the entire Ad
industry. From decomposing ambiguous problems into clear, straight-forward
implementations to collaborating with product managers on new feature ideas,
every day will bring novel obstacles to overcome.

The ideal candidate has a proven track record of delivering new products and
features, with a deep understanding of computer science fundamentals, experience
building large-scale distributed systems and machine learning infrastructure.
You take initiative to improve operational excellence. You're a self-starter who
thrives in fast-paced, collaborative environments, with strong verbal and
written communication skills. Most importantly, you're passionate about solving
complex problems on behalf of customers.

If this sounds like the kind of challenge you're eager to take on, we'd love to
hear from you. Join our team and help shape the future of Amazon Advertising.

About the team
Amazon Advertising is dedicated to driving measurable outcomes for brand
advertisers, agencies, authors, and entrepreneurs.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have an ambitious roadmap
and a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an
environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your
career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team
member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on
more complex tasks in the future.

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
• 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
• 1+ years of building large-scale machine-learning infrastructure for online recommendation, ads ranking, personalization or search experience

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, deliver, and maintain distributed data and ML systems that are core to Amazon’s Advertising stack.
• Have the opportunity to grow and broaden your technical skills as you work in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and product innovation.
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
• Brainstorm with product management and partner teams about new ideas, technical design and project plans; make data-driven decisions to inform product prioritization.
• Drive mission critical projects, work with senior engineers and mentor junior level engineers.

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