Sr Software Engineer, Amazon Ads DSP

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Ad Exchange (AAX) in New York is shaping the future of programmatic advertising at massive scale. You will design and build distributed ad-serving infrastructure, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver low-latency, high-throughput services that power ads across Amazon properties.

You will own end-to-end system design, code, reviews, and performance optimizations while mentoring peers and driving best practices in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience building scalable distributed systems.
• Ability to mentor teammates and contribute to career growth.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement network and infrastructure systems from the ground up.
• Build, document, and advocate team processes using software development best practices.
• Propose innovative tools, frameworks, automations and processes for adoption across Amazon Ads.
• Write clean, maintainable code and perform peer code reviews.
• Deep-dive into client or server systems to optimize performance, maintainability, scalability.
• Mentor others and help managers guide career growth of team members.
• Operate at AWS-stressing scale with deep knowledge of tech fundamentals.

Skills

CDK

Java

Rust

Python

Distributed systems

Tools

AWS

Job description

Description

Come join Amazon Ad Exchange - a high scale, low latency service that is critical the entire Ad eco-system. Our business is growing super fast and so is our team!

Do you want to solve business challenges through innovative technology? Do you enjoy working on massively scalable technology in a fast-paced team environment? Do you love working on industry defining projects that move the needle?

Amazon challenges are big and impact millions of customers, sellers, and countless products across the globe. Our path is not always easy so we are selective about who joins us on this journey. There is a certain kind of person who takes on software development challenges at Amazon – someone excited by the idea creating new platforms, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company whose ship cycles are measured in weeks, not years. If this is you, come build the future with us.

Amazon Ad eXchange (AAX) aims to match ad opportunities (supply) from various Amazon Owned & Operated properties and external publishers with ad campaigns/lines (demand) and external demand sources in an efficient, scalable and privacy-centric manner while balancing the needs of advertisers, publishers and consumers. We ensure high ROI for our advertisers, high yield for our publishers and high-quality ad experiences for our consumers.

AAX is a high scale (~3 MM QPS), low latency service that is critical the entire Ad eco-system. The Amazon Advertising business is growing super fast, and so is our team and our data. The service and solutions we produce is used by dozens of internal business teams, as well as Amazon customers : Publishers, Broadcasters, Advertisers. We are still in that growth stage when every engineer on the team has a chance to design and own an end-to-end system, solution or large service.

Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary engineering talent to design and develop state of the art Ads systems and infrastructure.

Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.

Develop custom infrastructure solutions which can operate at incredible scale and speed, and future proof as we get bigger and faster.

Build distributed systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, Develop, Implement Network & Infrastructure Systems from the ground up
• Build, document, and advocate team processes using software development best practices
• Propose innovative tools, frameworks, automations and processes for adoption across Amazon Ads
• Write clean, maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews. Drive improvements to the code review process. (CDK, Java, Rust, Python)
• Deep-dive into client or server systems to optimize for performance, maintainability, scalability, extensibility as needed.
• Assist in the career development of others by actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
• Utilize deep knowledge of tech fundamentals to build things that can operate at AWS-stressing scale.