Software Dev Engineer II, Advertising Analytics & Data Management

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon to enhance the advertising analytics and data management team. You will contribute to building an analytics platform for one of the largest product catalogs in the world while mentoring junior engineers. If you have a strong background in software development and are passionate about building scalable solutions, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits

Medical, financial, and other benefits

Equity and sign-on payments may be provided

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience.
• Experience with programming in at least one language.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical direction of Amazon Advertising core analytics platform.
• Design and own business critical services.
• Mentor junior engineers and assist with recruiting.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems

Data processing platforms

Algorithm development

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Software Dev Engineer II, Advertising Analytics & Data Management

Job ID: 3005234 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Amazon 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 our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving 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 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.

The Ad Data Management team, based in Seattle, is responsible for building an analytics platform that enables business insights to our customers. We deal with one of the world’s largest product catalog, handle billions of requests a day with plans to grow it by order of magnitude. We are looking for a highly motivated, top notch engineer to revamp existing systems and build new ones from the ground up. A successful candidate will have demonstrated experience in at least some of the following areas: building distributed high scale systems, building and scaling very large data processing platforms using distributed computing technologies such as Map/Reduce, Spark, transactional systems and data persistence using dynamoDB/RDBMS, algorithm development for efficient scheduling, sampling, queuing, classification, etc.

As an experienced member of the team, in this role, you will:
- Drive the technical direction of Amazon Advertising core analytics platform's offerings and solutions, working with latest technologies.
- Design business critical services, code and own what you build architecturally and operationally.
- Mentor and assist in the career development of junior engineers.
- Assist with recruiting and hiring.
- Decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions

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 an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.