Software Development Engineer , Amazon Ads

Amazon; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company that is redefining the advertising landscape with cutting-edge big data technologies. As a Software Development Engineer in the Amazon Ads team, you'll tackle some of the most challenging technical problems in the industry, building and scaling petabyte-scale services. Your expertise in software development, big data, and distributed systems will be crucial as you contribute to innovative solutions that optimize advertising spend for marketers. This role offers a unique opportunity to work with industry-leading experts and make a significant impact in a fast-paced environment. If you're passionate about technology and eager to face inspiring challenges, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience.
• Experience with design patterns and system architecture.
• Ability to adapt to changing technical environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop software products for measurement and reporting.
• Combine open source and AWS technologies for traffic ingestion.
• Communicate effectively with engineers and executives.

Skills

Software Development

Big Data

Distributed Systems

Machine Learning

Hadoop

Hive

Spark

AWS Services

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Hadoop

Hive

Spark

AWS EMR

AWS Redshift

AWS Kinesis

AWS DynamoDB

Job description

Software Development Engineer , Amazon Ads

Passionate about Big Data and Distributed Systems? Interested in building new state-of-the-art products at Petabyte scale? Be part of a team of industry leading experts that operates one of the largest big data analytics platforms at Amazon. We are responsible for end to end processing of impressions, views, and clicks as well as video interaction events or rich media events in ads. We are applying the latest machine learning and big data technologies available on terabytes of data a day (over 30B new events per day) operating Petabyte size clusters. Our data must always be the fastest, most high fidelity data as it is both billable, critical to checking the heartbeat of a campaign and changes to made to the campaigns while in flight, and part of the measure of success for a campaign.
We are looking for an experienced software engineer that can combine open source technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Spark and Presto, as well as AWS services like EMR, Redshift, Kinesis and DynamoDB to build the next generation of our Traffic Ingestion and Application platform. You will be responsible for designing and developing software products that will provide measurement and reporting to a wide set of users across all of Amazon's advertising suite across display, search, native, and video on all devices.
Candidates for this position should have strong software engineering fundamentals as well as real-world experience. You will be able to demonstrate a variety of architectural approaches and design patterns and have a demonstrated competence in designing maintainable and scalable software written in a high-level language. You will show your ability to adapt to changing technical environments and devise creative solutions to vexing software problems. Candidates must have the ability to communicate effectively, both in writing and orally, to engineers and executives.

Join the fast growing Amazon Ads business! Amazon is leveraging its highly unique data to change the way marketers purchase, track, measure, and optimize their advertising spend. You will encounter some of the toughest and most inspiring technical challenges of your career as you build petabyte-scale services, invent new big data paradigms, and scale for growth.

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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