Come join Amazon Ad Exchange - a high scale, low latency service handling millions of concurrent connections, helping advertisers reach their customers at the right moment with the right message.

Who are we?
We are Amazon Ad e Xchange (AAX) responsible for ingesting a massive amount of ad opportunities from across the internet and across the globe in a highly efficient and privacy-centric manner, to drive the highest ROI for our advertiser customers. AAX is a geographically distributed, low latency (<100ms) high volume (millions of transactions per second) system. We work closely with our partner and industry standards groups to understand how we can make advertising more effective for all players (publishers, advertisers, consumers). We seek to leverage industry standards (OpenRTB, VAST, Native, etc.) when suitable, and define new standards when appropriate to help the ad tech industry evolve and improve.

Who are you?
You are a strong Software Development Engineer who is passionate about performance and efficiency in a real time system. You have demonstrable experience in diving deep into performance critical systems where every single millisecond of latency matters. You have broad experience in Ad Tech systems and bring your understanding of the Ads ecosystem to hit the road running on day one. You possess strong AWS Infrastructure development skills.

• Key job responsibilities
• Design, Develop, Implement Network & Infrastructure Systems from the ground up
• Build, document, and advocate team processes using software development best practices
• Propose innovative tools, frameworks, automations and processes for adoption across Amazon Ads
• Write clean, maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews. Drive improvements to the code review process. (CDK, Java, Rust, Python)
• Deep-dive into client or server systems to optimize for performance, maintainability, scalability, extensibility as needed.
• Assist in the career development of others by actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
• Utilize deep knowledge of tech fundamentals to build things that can operate at AWS-stressing scale.

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

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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Mountain View - 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually