DESCRIPTION
Looking for a green field, high impact new initiative to exercise your imagination and design skills? Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. Come help us define and deliver an exciting confidential new Amazon Ads program!
We are looking for engineers for a confidential new advertising program that will have significant strategic impact to the Amazon Ads business. You will work backwards from customers, collaborate with technical teams across Amazon Ads to design and implement solutions, and deeply analyze the results. You will also evangelize new features and communicate technical priorities to senior leadership. You will deal with some of the toughest and most inspiring challenges of your career as you invent a new value proposition, real time systems and big data paradigms, and scale for growth.
We are looking to hire for this role in Toronto.
Key job responsibilities
Together with your scrum, you will prototype and develop new components using the latest event-driven and server-less technologies. You will develop both real time and petabyte scale big data systems working directly with different types of technology. You will design, launch, own and evolve software that serves both the interests of customers and advertisers. You'll work closely with our top notch team of scientists and economists to invent, build and try ML-based approaches to iterate on what works best.
A day in the life
You will have a mix of designing and setting up new services, integrating with partner teams, and running spike efforts to plan future initiatives. There is lots to build and learn, so expect to drive multiple initiatives as you gain experience in the space.
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
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