Software Development Engineer, Publisher Services

This is a rare opportunity to start a completely new initiative within Amazon Advertising. You will be a foundational member of the team that builds a world-class, green-field suite of services for the Amazon Supply-Side Technologies.

What is Amazon Advertising?
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. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers on Amazon.com, across our other owned and operated sites, on other high quality sites across the web, and on millions of devices (Kindles, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Alexa, mobile, Twitch, and more). We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, highly respected advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place.

What does Publisher Services, the hiring team, do?
The Publisher Services team within Amazon Advertising is building the next generation of products and services that will fuel the growth of Amazon’s advertising business. We own the customer facing facets of Amazon’s Supply Side Technologies, which allow publishers to monetize their on-demand, streaming, and static placements across Amazon’s ad network in a few clicks. Publishers interact directly with our platform, through our website and/or programmatic APIs and get enterprise-grade access to optimize billions of impression opportunities per day.

What is the Publisher Services team looking for?
We seek a full stack Software Development Engineer (SDE) to build web- and API-based customer experiences as we grow to become the best Advertising Supply Technologies on the market. You will partner with our customers, Senior Engineers, Principal Engineers, and teams across Ads to design, implement, evaluate and improve our architecture.

If I were hired, what would I be working on?
This is a rare opportunity to start a completely new set of services at Amazon. You will be a foundational member of the team that builds services to grow and scale infrastructure for the Amazon Supply-Side Technologies in Advertising. You’ll work with customer and product owners to scope, design, implement, test and launch new experiences and features to simplify, automate, and reduce the effort to recognize and find the perfect audiences for our publishers. Our team is just beginning, and working through the architecture and talking with our customers and partners to set a bold vision focused on ease of use, scaling and developer agility. You will be a critical decision-maker for the technologies, architecture, and tools we use to build, test, and deploy our publisher experiences. You will put your architecture and designs ideas into practice to delight our customers.

Why should I join your team?
Be a Day 1 member of a growing team that is investing heavily in both User Experiences and User Interfaces in Amazon’s number 1 growing business. Work on the initial implementation of our views to amaze our publishers, and iterate to drive their business and save them time. Work together with a data-driven team spanning product ownership, UX, and development to delight customers. You will have significant influence on our architecture and get to build out functionality using modern web tools and libraries. Solve interesting scale problems as we increase our customer base and grow volume 5x. Our overarching mission is to create a frictionless campaign management experience. We will simplify, automate and reduce effort at every turn for our advertising customers to put the right ad in front of the right audience at the right time in a cost effective manner.