Sr. Software Development Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Self Service Performance Advertising provides the platform for one of Amazon's fastest growing businesses. The Advertiser Experience group owns the experience of the advertiser from the moment they decide to engage with our platform right through the full lifecycle of self-service advertising management. This includes B2B data management tools (UI, API and offline processing), performance visualizations, and insightful recommendations. We are passionate about building scalable, well-designed software services, and strive to constantly improve our technical foundation and user experience. As an engineer within Advertiser Experience, you'll have a direct impact on your customers by making it easy and efficient for these suppliers to advertise their brands and products, increase sales and improve the Amazon shopper experience.

The System:
The Advertiser Communication and Engagement System (ACES) is the centralized communication and engagement system for advertisers on Amazon, integrating with systems which generate operational, marketing and product communications and delivering the content via the advertiser's preferred channels (email, selling coach, business advisor, mobile, etc.). ACES delivers millions of outbound communications to the worldwide advertising community, honoring their delivery preferences and maintaining high performance and accuracy.

The Team:
We are a highly-motivated, collaborative and fun-loving group within Amazon Advertising. We are entrepreneurial and have a bias for action with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. The team is poised to double in size in the coming year, so now is a great time to join and make a significant impact on the future of the Amazon Advertising vision.

The Candidate (You!):
We are looking for a Sr. Software Development Engineer to help us build the next generation of intelligent self-service advertising tools. We are seeking that rare combination of solid coding background, an aptitude to apply cutting edge technologies at scale, and a willingness to challenge the status quo and raise the bar on every service and feature we build.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about quality, consistency, maintainability, performance, security and all the other things that make great software great. They will own the design and implementation of major deliverables end-to-end. This position requires collaboration with fellow software engineers, product managers, technical program managers, and partner teams, necessitating a comfort-level with ambiguity and a desire to create, iterate and improve.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 7+ years of industry experience architecting and implementing scalable distributed software services
· Advanced-level service oriented architecture and operation of a customer-facing cloud-based, production software system
· Expert-level software performance engineering
· Expert-level OO modeling
· Expert-level test writing abilities
· Expert-level teaming, mentoring and technical leadership
· Expert-level written and verbal communication skills
· Minimum achievement of a B.S. degree in Computer Science or a related field; or equivalent experience (based on 3 years of relevant work experience for every 1 year of education)