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Amazon Sr. Software Development Engineer, ADSP: Forecasting in New York, New York
Description
Amazon Advertising is dedicated to driving measurable outcomes for brand advertisers, agencies, authors, and entrepreneurs. Our ad solutions—including sponsored, display, video, and custom ads—leverage Amazon’s innovations and insights to find, attract, and engage intended audiences throughout their daily journeys. With a range of flexible pricing and buying models, including self-service, managed service, and programmatic ad buying, these solutions help businesses build brand awareness, increase product sales, and more.
We are looking for a senior software developer with a passion for dealing with internet scale datasets to work on Amazon's Analytics, Forecasting and Optimization Platform for advertising. Our platform is used across Amazon by a variety of advertising programs including Display, Video, Mobile and Kindle. Our team builds end-to-end solutions including data pipelines, large scale index data structures, time series models, software services and large scale data visualizations. Our systems are based on a mix of AWS and third-party technologies, using ones that make the best sense in a given scenario.
Key job responsibilities
Work closely with a group of highly talented and motivated software and data science engineers who build systems and models used to analyze petabytes of data
Build systems and models to analyze supply and demand side of our advertising business and devise optimization methods.
Work on analyzing exchange bidding behavior, time series modeling, optimal inventory allocation and many other exciting problems posed by a advertising business
Invent ways to overcome technical limitations and enable new forms of analyses that drive key business decisions
Investigate new technologies and champion adoption within the team
Work on a platform that spans Hadoop, Map/Reduce, Pig, FastBit, Redshift, and S3 using programming languages such as Java, C++ and Python
Mentor junior team members
Directly participate in setting the vision and objectives for strategic Amazon goals, in alignment with business needs and ad market dynamics.
Find new ways to use variety of Amazon's data sets to help one of the fastest growing businesses within Amazon
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
New York, NY, USA
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Preferred Qualifications
5+ 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
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $134,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.