Full Job Description
Description
Orchestrating the selection of one out of tens of
millions of ads, honoring advertiser targeting intent for hundreds of
thousands of advertisers while ensuring great shopper experience for
billions of shoppers millions of times per second on a latency of tens
of milliseconds is not a trivial task.
The SD bid orchestration
team copes with this challenge and delights shoppers and advertisers
everyday. You think that great engineering starts with simple
solutions to iterate and learn from (vs 'perfect' solutions)?
We're
looking for a Software Engineer in the Amazon Ads Sponsored Display
organisation. This is a hands-on role to lead the creation of high
throughput, low latency software orchestrating bid requests for all
customers worldwide.
You will embody engineering rigor, designing
and executing proofs of concept that validate the technical efficacy
and business value of our product hypotheses. Then bringing them into
production, balancing speed of learnings with operational
excellence.
Successful candidates will have strong technical
ability, self driven, excellent teamwork, and communication skills,
and a motivation to achieve business results in a fast-paced
environment.
Key job responsibilities
- Work side by side with
our scientists to deliver code changes impacting all our ads
stack
- Rapidly prototype and test many possible
hypotheses/implementation alternatives in a high-ambiguity
environment, making use of both quantitative analysis and business
judgement
- Work with very large datasets.
- Integrate
successful experimental results into large-scale, highly complex
Amazon production systems capable of handling 100,000s of transactions
per second at low latency.
- Automate, monitor and self heal our
systems
A day in the life
You will partner with our product
teams, bringing your own ideas to the conversation and aligning on
work, adjusting priorities based on business requirements and fast
iteration on experiments.
You will work with scientists on rapid
data gathering prototypes and analyses and represent the rigor of
engineering in the conversation; you will engage with scientists,
product and finance to align on the benefits of the proposed
approach.
You will help harmonise our product stack, enabling
simple monitoring and self healing that allow us to do more with less
through automation and rapid diagnostic tools.
About the
team
The SD bidder team is behind the brain of the Sponsored
Display ad serving stack. We deliver large impact at huge scale and
are proud of the scalability, stability and operational excellence of
our system, but acknowledge the sly is the limit for our ambition to
improve.
Basic Qualifications
- Experience programming with at
least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including
object-oriented design
- Experience contributing to the
architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability
and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience in
professional, non-internship software development
Preferred
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or
equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle,
including coding standards, code reviews, source control management,
build processes, testing, and operations
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