Amazon Publisher Services (APS) helps publishers of all sizes and on all channels better monetize their content through effective advertising. APS unites publishers with advertisers across devices and media channels. We work with Amazon teams across the globe to solve complex problems for our customers. The end results are Amazon products that let publishers focus on what they do best - publishing.
The APS Publisher Products Engineering team is responsible for building cloud-based advertising technology services that help Web, Mobile, Streaming TV broadcasters and Audio publishers grow their business. The engineering team focuses on unlocking our ad tech on the most impactful Desktop, mobile and Connected TV devices in the home, bringing real-time capabilities to this medium for the first time. An ideal individual is someone who has backend engineering skills and deep data engineering skills like Extract, Transform and Load (ETL), data modeling, database architecture and big data solutions to help improve publisher profitability. The software engineer will help us with complex and ambiguous problems like yield optimization, latency optimization, and pricing recommendation engines. The engineer will have a big impact on the Publisher Products team by designing and implementing effective data models for analytics platform to support fast and flexible queries and also keeping an eye on continuous improvement of our data analytics infrastructure and reporting capability.
Key job responsibilities
* Submit code and an approach to work that is exemplary writing extensible, maintainable, scalable software.
* Drive long-term architectural approaches, innovating to address deficiencies and simplifying when necessary.
* Drive the business impact of your systems showing data-driven judgment when making technical trade-offs.
* Influence team and organizations’ technical strategy, bringing perspective and provide context to guide future technology choices.
* Drive engineering best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) setting team and organizational standards.
* Think big, bringing fresh ideas focused on our customers’ needs.
* Confronted with discordant views, find the best way forward and influence others to follow that path (build consensus).
* Contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices
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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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.