Senior Software Development Engineer, Ads AI Core Infra

Amazon.com Inc

Seattle, WA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Ad Serving, Advertising, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Operations, Business Support, Campaigns, Cross-Functional, Customer Experience, Data Lake, Entrepreneurship, High Availability, Mentoring, Metrics, Organizational Development/Management, People Management, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Process Improvement, Product Lifecycle, Product Programs, Product/Service Launch, Productivity Management, Project/Program Management, Quality Assurance, Retail, Sales, Software Development, Software Engineering, Systems Administration/Management, Team Player, Technical Strategy, Testability, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Seattle, WA
POSTED
14 days ago

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.

Ads AI Core Infra (ACI) organization owns services supporting many functions across the advertising lifecycle like Accounts, Permissions, Campaign Management, Builder Productivity, Analytics and Availability and Quality Assurance etc. Our top focus areas are to innovate on behalf of our customers, support partner business launches and improve our engineering systems for feature velocity, availability, performance and scale. This role will see you collaborate with a large number of teams across WW Advertising to drive key initiatives to improve resilience of advertising systems.

You"ll become part of a highly motivated team of talented multi-functional builders (front and backend developers) who can collaborate with product managers, technical specialists, and principals across the company. You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that's higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems that, haven't been solved at scale before - anywhere. You will encounter challenging, novel situations every day and given the size of this initiative, you'll have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon in different locations. We're looking for self-motivated engineers who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, can demonstrate a high degree of teamwork, and want to have fun while they make history and collaborate on beautiful products.

A successful candidate will have strong technical skills, and a history of delivering high quality code to solve complex business problems. Written and verbal communication in this role are critical: you will author narratives that will be consumed by Amazonians at all levels.

Key Technical Challenges:

This role will provide critical support to 2 Advertising wide cross-cutting charters - Builder Productivty and Service Availability.

Builder Productivity: The team owns global Advertising wide charter to improve organization wide development velocity. This role will enable Builders across the organization deliver products and features to our customers faster while ensuring highest quality, by building AI powered tools and mechanisms at the enterprise scale, while also functioning as a champion with deep understanding of emerging GenAI innovations and depth or software product delivery lifecycle workflows.

Service availability: This role will provide critical support to the Global Ads Availability team that owns Ads wide Availability framework, and critical service infrastructure that forms the backbone of Ad serving, enabled across multiple regions and Availability Zones. It is critical to ensure that this framework remains highly available. High Availability architecture will help us make sure that the system is configured to handle different loads and different failures with minimal or no downtime.

Key job responsibilities

  • Engage with key stakeholders such as Product, Program Managers, Senior Managers to understand customer, business requirements and brainstorm on solutions. Drive tech strategy and decision making.
  • Apply your technical expertise to solve complex software problems in a fast-paced environment
  • Strategize, design and launch services for medium-to-large scale projects across all areas of this Spektr Data lake core components. All with the goal of delivering a seamless experience to the customer.
  • Provide guidance to and mentor other SDEs in the team. Ensure testability, maintainability and low operational footprint for the team.
  • Participate in operational responsibilities with your team and ensure clear and accurate business metrics and operational metrics.

About the Company

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Amazon.com Inc

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COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Retail
FOUNDED
1994
WEBSITE
http://Amazon.com/militaryroles