Sr Software Development Engineer, Sponsored Products Autonomous SP

Sr Software Development Engineer Sponsored Products

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.

Sponsored Products helps merchants retail vendors and brand owners succeed via native advertising that grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The Sponsored Products team owns Sponsored Products APIs and delivers products and features that drive performance at scale.

Were looking for innovative and customer-obsessed professionals who can help us take our products to the next level. We embrace leaders with a startup mentality -- those who seek a disruptive yet clear mission and purpose have an unambiguous owner mindset and are relentlessly obsessed with making connections with customers.

As a Sr software engineer you will be responsible for designing highly scalable APIs and implementing controls to help our partners scale. You will have a direct impact on our customers by putting our vast amount of data to work by deploying advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms to automate advertisers marketing strategies increase sales for advertisers. You will build robust predicting services and recommendation engines for solutions that handle massive throughput under tight latency constraints including optimization of runtime machine learning models.

Were a fast-growing team with a very high focus from business to grow so theres lot of opportunities. No chance of getting bored here.

Key job responsibilities
You are:

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 decision-making.

Team obsessed: You help grow your team members to achieve results. You foster the creative atmosphere to let engineers innovate while holding them accountable for making smart decisions and delivering results.

Humbitious: 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 non-obvious 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 system-related 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 QA) 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.

Own your own shop: Our products reach hundreds of millions of customers around the world. We run operations 24x7x365 and the services your team delivers must meet high standards for operational excellence. Our teams own and operate the systems we build.

- 5 years of non-internship 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.

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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 job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on 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.