Location: New York,NY, USA
Description
Are you looking for a greenfield Software Development Engineer position building highly-distributed, large-scale, real-time serverless systems for Amazon Advertising, Amazon's fastest growing multi-billion dollar business? Do you love to conceptualize and build applications from grounds-up? Like to develop real-time, distributed, large-scale, and modern applications? Like to interact with worldwide advertising customers to build systems that makes advertising and its functions automated and frictionless? Interested in being part of a worldwide Advertising Customer Experience team? Then, our Software Development team that builds Tier-1 Advertising Experience wants you!
We are building new innovative ways for Amazon Advertisers to make billions of dollars of payments across the globe by applying the rigor of engineering processes such as continuous integration and continuous deployment to distributed pipelines. In this position you will build and drive adoption for cutting edge payment methods for Amazon Advertising and beyond. As a Software Development Engineer (SDE-II) on the team you will take ownership over the software design, documentation, development, engineering approach, delivery and support of new payments software built natively in AWS. You will build systems for collecting payments, evaluating payment opportunities/risks and taking enforcement actions by leveraging serverless compute and orchestration, NoSQL storage, big data ingestion, storage and visualization tools. The payments experience you build will not only drive millions of Advertising payments but will also power payments for other up and coming Amazon businesses. We stand up world class CI/CD pipelines to deploy our service automating infrastructure provisioning, high volume load testing and first-rate monitoring so our engineers can keep their heads down inventing for our advertisers. Our problem space covers concurrent workflows across distributed systems (linearizability, eventual consistency), big data problems and performance optimization. Our team uses the latest AWS products and services to solve our problems including but not limited to: ECS, Fargate, EC2, EMR, Lambda, Kafka, Elastic Search, Dynamo DB, SQS, SNS, Cloud watch, CDK, Cloud Formation and many more.
Key job responsibilities
A successful Software Development Engineer will have a broad array of experiences, exceptional design skills, an excellent ability to solve problems, good communication skills and a desire to be a key technical contributor. The software you will be responsible for will require a breadth of technical development knowledge (i.e. distributed real-time systems, big data, orchestration software). Daily work will involve interacting with engineers, product stakeholders and managers, working on creative algorithms and building large-scale systems.
About the team
Work/Life Balance
Our team places great importance on work-life balance. While the majority of our work is done in our New York office, we maintain a flexible approach that allows for remote work when necessary. We prioritize core in-office hours, but our team members have the autonomy to adjust their schedules to best suit their needs, with some arriving earlier and others staying later.
Inclusive Team Culture
Our team is intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. Yes we do get to build a really cool service, but we also think a big reason for that is the inclusive and welcoming culture we try to cultivate every day. Were looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, empathetic, curious, motivated, reliable, and able to work effectively with a diverse team of peers; someone who will help us amplify the positive & inclusive team culture weve been building.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior engineers truly enjoy mentoring more junior engineers and engineers from non-traditional backgrounds through one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth. We try to assign projects and tasks based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
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
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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.