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Amazon Software Development Engineer - Creative X, Interactive Ad Experiences, Amazon Ads Product and Technology - Creative X in New York, New York
Description
Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers on Amazon owned and operated sites, other high quality sites across the web, and on millions of Fire TVs, tablets, and mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining a world-class advertising team with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place!
Smart TVs and Streaming Media Players are everywhere. Our goal at Video Advertising is to create a better user experience on these devices while helping advertisers reach their target audience at scale. Our services have differentiated assets in our consumer & audience insights and exclusive content which position us well for the future. We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented individuals to help foster nascent ideas into scalable products and launch them on a variety of streaming platforms.
Key job responsibilities
Build high quality infrastructure and software.
Own the technology behind.
Design and propose long term technical roadmaps.
Deep dive into unknown technical domains and bring the knowledge back to the team.
Develop close partnership with other teams within Amazon.
Mentor and influence junior engineers.
Engage with the engineering community across - Amazon to share learnings and grow.
A day in the life
As an SDE II, you will start by learning about our existing products and technologies first. You will spend most of your time tackling difficult technical challenges and implementing new features across a variety of tech stacks. You will design major parts of our software solution under the guidance of Sr. SDEs. You will influence junior engineers by advocating software best practices. You will start influencing product decisions by providing technical insights and suggestions. You will own our operational excellence and proactively refine our software development processes. About the team
We are a new program looking to drive innovation in the video ad experience on streaming TV. Our primary focus is to partner with Amazon’s own streaming services as well as third-party streaming TV apps to drive growth of video advertising.
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
Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
Preferred Qualifications
3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.