Software Dev Engineer II, Bidding Data & Analytics

Who are we
Amazon Advertising builds and manages systems with high performance and availability. We serve and respond to hundreds of billions of requests annually and have ambitions to grow that number several orders of magnitude while maintaining response latencies in the milliseconds and meeting strict SLA requirements. We delight in data and are constantly trying to enrich our models and make more informed decisions using every bit and byte we have.

This role is in our bidding data and analytics team. We operate at scale making sense of terabytes of hourly data. Our data outputs power multiple critical parts of the Advertising business and we operate with high-availability principles. Were at a point of rapid change both for our business and our architecture bringing numerous opportunities for strategic and design-level thinking. 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 Software Development Engineer who is passionate about performance and efficiency in a real time system and big data. 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 code-reviews. Drive improvements to the code review process. (CDK Java Rust Python)
- Deep-dive 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 AWS-stressing scale.



- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship 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 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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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 $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 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.