Software Development Engineer, Ads Publisher Technology

Amazons advertising technology powers billions of ad auctions every day connecting publishers with advertisers to deliver relevant ads and fund the content audiences rely on.

Ads Publisher Technologies (PubTech) builds the ad serving infrastructure at the center of this processing real-time auctions across web mobile streaming video audio and connected TV for publishers including Prime Video Twitch and Tubi. We give publishers access to Amazons demand and the tools to grow their ad revenue so they can focus on publishing.

As an SDE on the PubTech Ad Serving team you will design and build the distributed services that process real-time bid requests at scale. You will work across the ad serving stack publisher integrations auction mechanics bidder protocols and privacy enforcement and own features that directly affect publisher revenue and advertiser outcomes.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and build reliable low-latency services that process real-time OpenRTB bid requests across global regions.
- Architect and evolve publisher integrations across web mobile STV and audio inventory types.
- Build auction and pricing infrastructure that maximizes publisher yield while enforcing buyer controls privacy regulations and brand safety signals.
- Drive reliability and observability improvements across the ad serving stack owning availability latency and correctness metrics end-to-end.
- Partner with engineers and product managers to deliver features that improve publisher yield and buyer experience.

- 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
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- 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

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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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 CA Palo Alto - 165200.00 - 223600.00 USD annually