Software Dev Engineer II, Contextual Advertising, Ads Core Services (ACS)

Do you want to work in Advertising solving an industrydefining problem using advanced technology working at the intersection of Engineering and Science

Amazon is shaping the future of Advertising and our team is leading a part of that effort. We are seeking a passionate engineer who can help build an exciting new advertising product for Amazon. Contextual Advertising is an exciting new frontier for the advertising industry with the deprecation of critical identifiers used by advertising such as cookies. We are building an industry leading solution to this interesting problem and disruptive opportunity.

Advertising at Amazon is a fastgrowing multibillion dollar business that spans across desktop mobile and connected devices; encompasses ads on Amazon and a vast network of hundreds of thousands of third party publishers globally. Comet Amazon Ads contextual signal service powers ad programs across Amazon by providing contextual signals from 3P offsite and 1P properties beyond the Amazon Store leveraging a combination of home grown and 3P vendor solutions. The team owns extraction and generation of a wide range of contextual signals using the latest in generative AI and engineering. Comet also sources contextual signals directly from Amazon owned publishers (IMDb) and 3P vendors. To do all this the Comet team builds largescale realtime transactional solutions batch and stream processing systems internet scale crawling solutions and storage infrastructure. We process bid requests in the orders of tens of billions per day with our realtime batch and stream processing systems. We are not tied to one technology. Instead we use what is best suited for the purpose. All of our systems tend to be loosely coupled communicating using synchronous and asynchronous messaging leading to a classic distributed processing architecture. All our systems need to also implement complex machine learning and optimisation algorithms at scale.

Our team is creating key infrastructure to enable Amazons build out of contextual solutions for our customers. We are looking for a software development engineer to work on this new initiative that involves building highly available efficient and low latency internet scale infrastructure including webscale crawler contextual processing and classification systems data storage and vending solutions that will be used across multiple contextual advertising use cases. As an SDE2 you will be responsible for designing developing and evolving the architecture of these systems collaborating with the team for software development lifecycle activities and mentoring other engineers.

Key job responsibilities
1. Design and code right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
2. Drive best practices and engineering excellence.
3. Work with other team members to develop the architecture and design of new and current systems.
4. Work in an agile environment to deliver high quality software.

3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
3 years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development Release or Live Ops) experience
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

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