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Amazon Software Development Engineer, Creative Pixels and Privacy (CPP) in Arlington, Virginia

Description

Do you want to learn what it takes to deliver billions of ads across the globe that enhance the Amazon shopping experience with highly relevant and engaging content?

The Advertising Supply & Monetization team has both technical and business ownership of global advertising placements that appear across Amazon’s shopping experience. We are tasked with maximizing the long-term value that Amazon creates across its Display Advertising business by delivering an engaging ad experience to millions of shoppers each day. The team partners closely with both retail and advertising teams and is responsible for the successful uptime of thousands of placements running billions of ad impressions across 10+ countries. Our work is seen by 100's of millions of customers across our properties, and demands rigor in solutions development with the need for continuous improvements in scale, latency and customer experience.

As a software development engineer on the team, you will:

  • Work in a fast-paced environment building products using Java/Typescript, Amazon’s web services and development frameworks, wide range of AWS services (infrastructure, serverless, relational/NoSQL databases, Big Data/ML technologies etc.) along with a wide range of automated DevOps tooling.

  • Work to expand our large-scale programmatic ad supply, and integrate with personalization systems to select and deliver highly relevant advertising content that drives optimal performance and monetization.

  • Build high scale and low latency services that power the ad delivery of billions of ad impressions.

  • Develop new services that manage real-time bidding/auctions behavior and pricing strategies for advertising programs and publishers.

  • Develop the team’s big data systems and generate insights on delivery and performance to guide our business decisions and investment.

  • Seek to continually innovate and scale the services you build through researching technology choices, and owning the operational excellence of solutions.

  • Work with a broad stakeholder group across advertisers, sales, finance, ad demand programs, and retail supply owners. You will partner with engineering teams to identify and execute on the most promising opportunities.

We will take your knowledge and experience and challenge you to innovate to create the next generation of advertising products and services. If this sounds interesting, join us today and become a member of this highly motivated, cooperative and fun-loving team and impact millions of customers.

Key job responsibilities

Software engineers in this role manage the end-to-end rendering flow of ads serving on Amazon sites globally. This includes many real-time advertising services that serve traffic at the Amazon retail scale. You will develop, design and maintain these services, and innovate on new features and improvements to delight our customers.

About the team

CPP’s mission is to deliver an optimal advertising experience on Amazon Onsite (amazon.*) that is lightning fast, loads at every opportunity, and delights the customer with content that fits naturally on the page. CPP owns enabling and improving the creative rendering, performance, and privacy for onsite supply. We aim to deepen the publisher relationship through optimizing SafeFrame performance, expanding creative format offerings (such as video), and enhancing advertising metrics. CPP’s charter is fulfilled through the ownership of the Ad Safeframe, measurement pixels, and supporting supply expansion.

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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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