Software Development Engineer, Ads DSP

Software Development Engineer, Amazon Ads DSP

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Overview

Amazon Advertising builds and manages systems with high performance and availability. We serve and respond to hundreds of billions of requests annually, and have ambitions to grow that number several orders of magnitude, while maintaining response latencies in the milliseconds and meeting strict SLA requirements. We delight in data, and are constantly trying to enrich our models and make more informed decisions using every bit and byte we have.

This role is in our bidding data and analytics team. We operate at scale, making sense of terabytes of hourly data. Our data outputs power multiple critical parts of the Advertising business, and we operate with high-availability principles. We seek to leverage industry standards (OpenRTB, VAST, Native, etc) when suitable, and define new standards when appropriate to help the ad tech industry evolve and improve.

Who are you?

You are a strong Software Development Engineer who is passionate about performance and efficiency in a real time system and big data. You have demonstrable experience in diving deep into performance critical systems where every single millisecond of latency matters. You have broad experience in Ad Tech systems and bring your understanding of the Ads ecosystem to hit the road running on day one.

Key responsibilities

• Design, Develop, Implement greenfield real time Systems from the ground up
• Champion team processes using software development best practices
• Propose innovative tools, frameworks, automations and processes for maintaining the system performance standards
• 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.

• 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 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 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 Company’s 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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