Amazon Advertising is one of Amazons fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Amazons advertising portfolio helps merchants retail vendors and brand owners succeed via native advertising which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers.
Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!
The Creative Building team is part of a newly formed VP-led organization named CreativeX which sits within Amazon Advertising. Its mission is to democratize access to high-quality creatives.
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer (SDE) who is capable of breaking down and solving complex problems and have a strong will to get things done! An SDE at Amazon works on world problems on a global scale. They own their products end to end and influence the direction of our product and technology which impacts hundreds of millions customers around the world. You are a hands-on pragmatic problem solver that easily balances trade-offs between competing interests. You thrive in a fast-moving team environment where you are able to juggle complex dependencies and requirements while producing optimal solutions. Ambiguity and creativity are both expected and the norm. This unique opportunity puts you in the drivers seat to improve the efficiency and experience for our internal and external customers.
Key job responsibilities
- Build and own high quality infrastructure and software.
- Develop close partnership with other teams within Amazon engaging with the engineering community to share learnings and grow.
- Mentor and influence junior engineers.
- Advocate for software best practices
- Dive deep into video user experiences at Amazon to understand customer and business data.
- Advocate for user experiences within Amazon advertising and across Amazon.
- 4 years of computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design data structures algorithm design problem solving and complexity analysis) experience
- 3 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including object-oriented design
- 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
- 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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually