Come join Amazon Ad Exchange a high scale low latency service handling millions of concurrent connections helping advertisers reach their customers at the right moment with the right message.
Who are we
We are Amazon Ad eXchange (AAX) responsible for ingesting a massive amount of ad opportunities from across the internet and across the globe in a highly efficient and privacycentric manner to drive the highest ROI for our advertiser customers. AAX is a geographically distributed low latency <100ms) high volume (millions of transactions per second) system. We work closely with our partner and industry standards groups to understand how we can make advertising more effective for all players (publishers advertisers consumers). We seek to leverage industry standards (OpenRTB VAST Native etc) when suitable and define new standards when appropriate to help the ad tech industry evolve and improve.
Who are you
You are a strong Senior Software Development Engineer who is passionate about performance and efficiency in a real time system. You have demonstrable experience in diving deep into performance critical systems where every single millisecond of latency matters. You have broad experience in Ad Tech systems and bring you understanding of the Ads ecosystem to hit the road running on day one.
Key job responsibilities
Design Develop Implement greenfield real time Systems from the ground up
Champion team processes using software development best practices
Propose innovative tools frameworks automations and processes for maintaining the system performance standards
Write clean maintainable code and perform peer codereviews. Drive improvements to the code review process. (CDK Java Rust Python)
Deepdive 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 AWSstressing scale.
5 years of noninternship professional software development experience
5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
5 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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261500/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.