Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers on Amazon owned and operated sites, other high quality sites across the web, and on millions of TV, tablet, and mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you're interested in leading a world-class team with a relentless focus on the customer, you've come to the right place!
Our team within the Creative X org is focused on creating an engaging user experience through content and interactivity enrichment, while helping advertisers reach their target audience at scale. We're seeking an experienced software development engineer to architect and lead critical initiatives that will shape our technical direction. As an SDE, you will:
• Own and drive the technical strategy for major features and services, making high-impact architectural decisions that affect multiple teams
• Mentor junior engineers and cultivate engineering excellence within the team
• Lead the design and implementation of complex distributed systems that scale to handle millions of requests
• Collaborate with product managers and other technical leaders to define technical roadmaps and deliver solutions that align with business objectives
• Drive best practices in software development, including code quality, testing automation, and operational excellence
• Identify and resolve technical risks before they impact the business
• Partner with cross-functional teams across Amazon Advertising to design and implement integrated solutions
You will be instrumental in delivering an end-to-end solution that enables optimal retail metadata content in ads for the best customer experience. This role requires strong technical leadership, system design expertise, and the ability to balance long-term architectural goals with immediate business needs. You'll be expected to make significant technical contributions while also elevating the capabilities of your team members.
Key job responsibilities
• Lead the technical architecture and design of large-scale distributed systems, making critical decisions that balance performance, scalability, and maintainability
• Drive technical excellence by establishing engineering best practices, design patterns, and coding standards across the team
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers, conducting code reviews and architecture reviews to ensure high-quality deliverables
• Own the end-to-end delivery of major features, from technical design through implementation, testing, and deployment
• Collaborate with product managers to translate business requirements into technical solutions, providing options and recommendations for implementation approaches
• Design and implement robust, scalable services that handle millions of requests while maintaining high availability and performance
• Lead technical discussion forums and design reviews, facilitating consensus-building among team members and stakeholders
• Identify and proactively address technical debt and system bottlenecks before they impact business operations
• Partner with cross-functional teams to design and implement integrated solutions that span multiple services and systems
• Contribute to the team's operational excellence by establishing monitoring, alerting, and incident response procedures
• Drive innovation within the team by researching and evaluating new technologies and approaches that could benefit the organization- 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- 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 an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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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.
