Senior Software Engineer, Amazon
Bidding Data & Analytics
$151.3-261.5k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Be an early applicant
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$151.3-261.5k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- You are a strong Senior 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 you understanding of the Ads ecosystem to hit the road running on day one
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- 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're at a point of rapid change, both for our business and our architecture, bringing numerous opportunities for strategic and design-level thinking
- 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
- 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
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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