Software Development Engineer – Sponsored Products
Amazon Sponsored Products is investing heavily in building a world class
advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a
collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery
and sales. Our products are strategically important to Amazon’s Selling Partners
and key to driving their 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 team 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.
This position will be part of the Advertiser Growth organization within
Sponsored Products (SP). Our team focuses on launching innovative controls that
help +1.4MM advertisers create and manage performant SP campaigns to grow their
business. We develop recommender systems to help advertisers use these controls
effectively and develop state-of-art AI/ML based optimization services to
represent our advertisers in the SP marketplace. We strive to improve the
ability for advertisers to help shoppers discover relevant products on customer
search, browse and detail pages.
We're looking for innovative and customer-obsessed professionals who can help us
take our products to the next level. We embrace leaders with a startup mentality
-- those who seek a disruptive yet clear mission and purpose, have an
unambiguous owner mindset, and are relentlessly obsessed with making connections
with customers.
As a software engineer you will be responsible for designing highly scalable
APIs and implementing controls to help our partners scale. You will have a
direct impact on our customers by putting our vast amount of data to work by
deploying advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms to automate
advertisers marketing strategies, increase sales for advertisers. You will build
robust predicting services and recommendation engines for solutions that handle
massive throughput under tight latency constraints including optimization of
runtime machine learning models.
We’re a fast-growing team with a very high focus from business to grow, so
there’s lot of opportunities.
Key job responsibilities
You are:
Highly analytical: You solve problems in ways that can be backed up with
verifiable data. You focus on driving processes, tools, and statistical methods
which support rational decision-making.
Team obsessed: You help grow your team members to achieve results. You foster
the creative atmosphere to let engineers innovate, while holding them
accountable for making smart decisions and delivering results.
Engaged by ambiguity: You're able to explore new problem spaces with unique
constraints and thus non-obvious solutions; you’re quick to identify any gaps in
the team and the right person to fill them to best deliver value to customers
You will:
Own technical vision and direction: You identify problems and develop solutions;
you embrace performance metrics and measurement techniques because they help you
assess how well system-related services are running.
Build and grow your team: You'll be a key contributor on an engineering team
that delivers results. This means you'll wear a lot of hats -- from software
design, implementation, project management, operations, working with business
partners, and so on. You'll be an example of Amazon's leadership principles and
work to grow more leaders within your group.
Collaborate on product direction: You’ll build and maintain strong relationships
between engineering and partner disciplines (Product, User Experience, QA) to
ensure that we're focused on delivering the right product for customers.
Lead beyond your team: You will be a key part of a small but growing community
of engineering leaders who support their teams and contribute to the overall
growth of our product development organization. You'll share your experience and
technical acumen in order to drive technology decisions across our organization.
Own your own shop: Our products reach hundreds of millions of customers around
the world. We run operations 24x7x365 and the services your team delivers must
meet high standards for operational excellence. Our teams own and operate the
systems we build. 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
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of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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