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Amazon Software Development Engineer, Advertising Trust, Advertising Trust Tech in San Diego, California
Description
Have you ever been shown an irrelevant ad? How about and an embarrassing one with a child or parent watching? Here, you can help us be part of Amazon's solution to ensuring you and millions of customer like you never face this. Here, you can help us make a world wide impact on the Amazon Advertising experience. Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are building a new team responsible for ensuring that the ads served to customers meet the same high quality bar that you've come to love and trust.
We're looking for outstanding candidates to join us as full-time Software Development Engineers in our friendly team in Seattle. You will work as part of an agile team to help drive automation of ad moderation, quality, and content checks world wide. As an engineer, you will be involved in the full software development lifecycle from idea generation to delivery and operation. As we grow this team you will have a sense of true ownership of our technology and partnership with other teams as we build systems which meet high standards of performance and reliability and operate at scale.
Successful candidates are not just great coders, they are engineers who can delight customers through innovation, have excellent communication and collaboration skills and are motivated to build lasting full stack technologies using the latest systems like AWS Lambda and DynamoDB. Bring all that you already know and come ready and eager to learn and innovate together.
Key job responsibilities
Translate functional requirements into robust, scalable, supportable solutions that work well within the overall system architecture
Design and develop highly distributed components of our advertising system.
Work as full stack engineer to architect, design and build product from scratch that should delight advertisers and customers
Brainstorm with Product management and partner teams about new ideas, technical design; make data-driven decisions to inform product prioritization.
Be an early adopter of emerging AWS technologies for AdTech use cases.
Establish the best processes and drive improvements in design, development and operations
Mentor and guide junior engineers on design, coding, troubleshooting and operational excellence
Think out of the box!
About the team
The Advertising Trust (AT) organization is at the center of Amazon Ads, one of Amazon’s fastest growing businesses. Every ad that flows through Amazon, needs to adhere to the policies that AT creates. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily. We are highly motivated, collaborative and growing at an unprecedented rate.
Having high standards isn't just about delivering results, it's about team culture too. If you are excited at the chance to help grow a new team and form a culture of success, inclusion and innovation, then we welcome you.
Basic Qualifications
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
Preferred Qualifications
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
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
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.