Software Development Engineer Publisher Ad Server Amazon

Amazon Ads Supply Technology is a new and exciting program that is building supply side technology and pioneering novel experiences for our content publishers including audio (Alexa) video (Prime Video Twitch Freevee FireTV) display (Amazon) to aid in their selling their inventory optimize yield and maximize monetization.

The Publisher Ad Server Infrastructure team within Supply Tech is engaged in developing highly scalable ad serving mechanisms along with necessary features to serve ads. Among others this team is responsible for ad serving for large Alexa Prime Video live events such as TNF Twitch etc.

Our scope has grown substantially and we are looking for a engineering leader to grow the team build best in class publisher experiences and deliver a scalable system that will delight customers worldwide.

Key job responsibilities
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer who can build on our early success pioneer new programs for customers and help define our future. As a member of the Publisher Ad Server team you will spend your time as a handson engineer directly impacting ad delivery customer experience and revenue. You will play a key role in building software products and features from the ground up to experiment and enable different ad strategies. You will use a wide range of technologies programming languages and systems. Your responsibilities will include all aspects of software development. You will have the freedom and encouragement to explore your own ideas and the reward of seeing your contributions benefit tens of millions of customers. This is very much Day 1 for Supply Tech so you would be joining an entrepreneurial and pioneering team that is building from scratch.

A day in the life
Monitor AWS CloudWatch dashboards for key metrics set up and refine CloudWatch Alarms for critical thresholds
Analyze system performance using AWS XRay Profiler and CloudWatch Logs
Manage Auto Scaling groups for EC2 instances Optimize Elastic Load Balancer configurations Plan and implement horizontal scaling strategies
Design and implement multiAZ and multiregion architectures Set up and maintain AWS Route 53 for DNS management and failover Implement and test disaster recovery procedures
Maintain and update AWS CloudFormation templates or Terraform configurations
Maintain and improve the CI/CD pipeline using AWS CodePipeline




About the team
The Publisher Ad Server Infrastructure and team is responsible for building and maintaining the underlying infrastructure and developer tooling for Publisher Ad Server. This includes handling API design/versioning integration with internal and external systems (e.g. Inventory Caching Event Tracking and Amazon Ad Exchange) scaling and deployment monitoring and logging CI/CD pipelines request cost optimization and overall operational excellence.
PAS InDEx team is also responsible for easing the onboarding by a selfserve documentation repository and automating the publisher onboarding.

2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
3 years of noninternship professional software development experience

3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.