Amazon is investing in building a world class Advertising business. Our team the Advertising Sales Engineering team is at the head of this growth to enable our sales teams deliver at scale. Our goal is to accelerate the manually intensive sales operations by building required services and selfservice applications.
This is a team with a focused initiative looking for a motivated Software Development Engineer / SDE with a proven track record of building web applications and services at scale. Youll be responsible for owning designing and delivering highly scalable systems. Were a fastgrowing team with a very high focus from business to grow. Lots of opportunities to grow and no chance of getting bored!
A successful engineer in this role is :
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 decisionmaking.
Technically fearless: You arent satisfied by performing as expected and push the limits past conventional boundaries. Your dial goes to 11.
Team obsessed: You help grow your team members to achieve outstanding results. You foster the creative atmosphere to let engineers innovate while holding them accountable for making smart decisions and delivering results.
Youre ambitious yet humble: You recognize that theres always opportunity for improvement and use introspection and feedback from teammates and peers to raise the bar for your team.
Engaged by ambiguity: Youre able to explore new problem spaces with unique constraints and thus nonobvious solutions; youre 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 systemrelated services are running.
Build and grow your team: Youll be a key contributor on an engineering team that delivers results. This means youll wear a lot of hats from software design implementation project management operations working with business partners and so on. Youll be an example of Amazons leadership principles and work to grow more leaders within your group.
Collaborate on product direction: Youll build and maintain strong relationships between engineering and partner disciplines (Product User Experience) to ensure that were 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. Youll share your experience and technical acumen in order to drive technology decisions across our organization.
Design and build systems from scratch.
Key job responsibilities
Be heavily involved with design and product teams to understand needs propose features create early prototypes and transform them into exciting experiences.
Propose innovative tools frameworks automations and processes that are used by the entire services team for development.
Write clean maintainable code and perform peer codereviews.
Deepdive into client or server systems to optimize for performance maintainability scalability extensibility as needed.
Mentor your team members to promote engineering excellence
3 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
2 years of noninternship professional software development experience
Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle including coding standards software architectures code reviews source control management continuous deployments testing and operational excellence
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
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
Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
1 year of experience working with AWS cloud services such as ECS DynamoDB S3 and Lambda.
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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.