Senior Software Dev Engineer, Amazon Ads

• 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

Amazon is making significant investments to build a world-class Advertising business, which continues to be one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable offerings. Amazon's advertising portfolio empowers merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners to reach prospective buyers on Amazon.com, across our other owned and operated sites, on other high-quality sites across the web, and on millions of Kindles, tablets, mobile and other streaming devices.

Sales Recommendations and Insights (SRE) is a rapidly growing team within Amazon Ads, focused on enabling our internal account management teams to deliver advertising solutions at scale. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do. Our primary goals are to help advertisers, including multi-billion dollar brand owners, meet their business objectives using the most effective advertising campaign solutions to reach their target audiences.

To support this mission, SRE is investing heavily in developing strategic self-service applications and recommendation systems that improve the productivity of our internal teams, there by helping them scale to deliver personalized recommendations to our advertising clients. We are seeking a talented Senior Software Development Engineer to help us scale the delivery of advertising campaign recommendations to our advertising clients through API and UI-based solutions.

Key job responsibilities

• Contribute to the vision and goals for the team, and drive the technical strategy of our advertising recommendation systems.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, guiding them on complex design decisions, trade-offs, and best practices.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams in an agile environment to deliver high-quality features and meet customer commitments on time.
• Design and architect highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and available distributed services to power our advertising recommendation solutions.
• Continuously improve our operational practices, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering processes to increase efficiency and reliability.
• Partner with other engineers to rapidly diagnose and resolve customer-impacting issues, including participating in on-call rotations.
• Work with stakeholders to develop detailed project plans and ensure timely delivery of customer-facing features.
• 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

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