Ads AI Core Infra (ACI) organization owns services supporting many functions across the advertising lifecycle like Accounts, Permissions, Campaign Management, Builder Productivity, Analytics and Availability and Quality Assurance etc. Our top focus areas are to innovate on behalf of our customers, support partner business launches and improve our engineering systems for feature velocity, availability, performance and scale. This role will see you collaborate with a large number of teams across WW Advertising to drive key initiatives to improve resilience of advertising systems.
You'll become part of a highly motivated team of talented multi-functional builders (front and backend developers) who can collaborate with product managers, technical specialists, and principals across the company. You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that's higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems that, haven't been solved at scale before - anywhere. You will encounter challenging, novel situations every day and given the size of this initiative, you'll have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon in different locations. We're looking for self-motivated engineers who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, can demonstrate a high degree of teamwork, and want to have fun while they make history and collaborate on beautiful products.
A successful candidate will have strong technical skills, and a history of delivering high quality code to solve complex business problems. Written and verbal communication in this role are critical: you will author narratives that will be consumed by Amazonians at all levels.
Key Technical Challenges:
This role will provide critical support to 2 Advertising wide cross-cutting charters - Builder Productivty and Service Availability.
Builder Productivity: The team owns global Advertising wide charter to improve organization wide development velocity. This role will enable Builders across the organization deliver products and features to our customers faster while ensuring highest quality, by building AI powered tools and mechanisms at the enterprise scale, while also functioning as a champion with deep understanding of emerging GenAI innovations and depth or software product delivery lifecycle workflows.
Service availability: This role will provide critical support to the Global Ads Availability team that owns Ads wide Availability framework, and critical service infrastructure that forms the backbone of Ad serving, enabled across multiple regions and Availability Zones. It is critical to ensure that this framework remains highly available. High Availability architecture will help us make sure that the system is configured to handle different loads and different failures with minimal or no downtime.
Key job responsibilities
- Define the technology strategy
- Deliver independently, with limited guidance
- Solve complex software problems with extensible and scalable solutions. Along the way, you'll removes bottlenecks and makes trade-offs: short-term vs. long-term technical decisions.
- Design, develop, test, and deploy software.
- Lead large projects. Knows how to divide so they can work in parallel with other SDEs and reassemble into a cohesive launch.
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
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
- Experience with AWS technologies
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, NY, New York - 158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually
