Software Engineer, Amazon Ads DSP

DESCRIPTION

Come join Amazon Ads Infrastructure Platform - a high scale, low latency service that is critical the entire Ads eco-system. Our business is growing super fast and so is our team!

Do you want to solve business challenges through innovative technology? Do you enjoy working on massively scalable tech in a fast-paced team environment? Do you love working on industry defining projects that move the needle?

Amazon challenges are big and impact millions of customers, sellers, and countless products across the globe. Our path is not always easy so we are selective about who joins us on this journey. There is a certain kind of person who takes on software development challenges at Amazon – someone excited by the idea creating new platforms, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company whose ship cycles are measured in weeks, not years. If this is you, come build the future with us.

Ads Infra underlies systems which aim to match ad opportunities (supply) from various Amazon Owned & Operated properties and external publishers with ad campaigns/lines (demand) and external demand sources in an efficient, scalable and privacy-centric manner while balancing the needs of advertisers, publishers and consumers. We ensure high ROI for our advertisers, high yield for our publishers and high-quality ad experiences for our consumers.

The Infra platform is a high scale (Millions of TPS), low latency service that is critical the entire Ads eco-system. The Amazon Advertising business is growing super fast, and so is our team and our data. The service and solutions we produce is used by dozens of internal business teams, as well as Amazon customers : Publishers, Broadcasters, Advertisers. We are still in that growth stage when every engineer on the team has a chance to design and own an end-to-end system, solution or large service.

Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary engineering talent to design and develop state of the art Ads systems and infrastructure.

Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.

Develop custom infrastructure solutions with pioneering technologies operating at incredible scale and speed, and future proof as we get bigger and faster.

Build distributed systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.

Key job responsibilities
- Design, Develop, Implement Network & Infrastructure Systems from the ground up
- Build, document, and advocate team processes using software development best practices
- Propose innovative tools, frameworks, automations and processes for adoption across Amazon Ads
- 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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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 experience building with Amazon Web Services or other cloud, including VPC, EC2, ECS, EMR, IAM, or their equivalents, using infra-as-code - e.g. Terraform or CDK.