Location: New York,NY, USA
Description
Interested in working at the intersection of high-scale engineering, Machine Learning and Applied Science?
At Amazon Advertising, we are developing state-of-the-art large-scale computational advertising and real-time application. The Bidding and Pacing Engineering team develops algorithms and high performance, large-scale distributed systems to optimize ad selection, bidding and campaign performance. Our systems process billions of ad impressions daily from across the internet to power our display advertising algorithms. Our engineers work with machine learning scientists, economists and product managers on high impact initiatives for Amazons Display Advertising.
As an engineer on the team you will design and develop products that are at the heart of advertising products that determine how billions of impressions are allocated to advertisers and how much advertisers pay for those impressions. You will have responsibility to help define requirements, create software designs, implement code to these specifications, define continuous integration testing and support products while deployed and used by our customers. You will have complete ownership of technology choices, architecture, A/B testing for your features, code deployments into production environment and operations for the products you own. Your team will include Applied scientists, product managers and other high performing engineers. Were looking for SDEs interested in developing real-time bid and optimization algorithms on large scale systems that process tens of billions of requests/ day.
Key job responsibilities
You will have responsibility to help define requirements, create software designs, implement code to these specifications, define continuous integration testing and support products while deployed and used by our customers.
A day in the life
You will work closely with Applied Scientists, Data Scientists, Product Managers and high performing Software Engineers to simulate campaign optimization strategies and implement the strategies in large scale systems.
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 Amazon Web Services
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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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.