Software Engineer, Amazon
$99.5-200k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$99.5-200k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 1+ Years experience developing software in a professional environment
- Prior experience building consumer-facing products at scale
- Proficient coding skills in modern languages and frameworks
- Proven ability with algorithms, data structures, data modeling, and schema design
- Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Experience with languages/frameworks we use at Twitch: Golang, Typescript/React
- Experience building software and services using AWS technologies such as ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, and Step Functions
- Familiarity with Twitch, gaming, and/or streaming on Twitch
What the job involves
- You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together
- We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn and X, and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog. Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to learn how to ace our interview process
- The Twitch Ads team manages a comprehensive advertising ecosystem that balances revenue generation with user and advertiser satisfaction
- We deliver promotional content through multiple channels while maintaining seamless experiences for viewers, creators and advertisers
- Our team is responsible for driving up Ad Supply quality for Twitch and enabling Ad Demand via various domains including Ads Targeting, Brand Safety&Suitability, Measurement, Privacy and Ads Data Platform
- These critical technical solutions drive essential business operations and enable trustworthy products for advertisers that are measurable and targetable
- You will become an expert across the breadth of services powering these products - architecting, building, and operating them and working closely with the engineers within the Twitch Ads and Amazon Ads orgs
- You will be empowered to work across the stack, and will partner with other engineers, product managers, designers, and data analysts to deliver solutions
- Work with product managers, technical leads, and other engineers to design, develop, launch, and operate interactive experiences and products
- Build distributed applications at scale
- Collaborate with both your team and related teams - fostering shared understanding of how to solve problems and deliver solutions
- Work backwards from customer problems to drive business impact
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.
Steph
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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