Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities. Tens of billion dollars will be spent on advertising this year, and Amazon Sponsored Products is increasingly grabbing a larger and larger piece of the pie. We are looking for exceptional software engineers to build the ad serving and rendering services for our next generation, cost-per-click ad
· 6+ years industry experience in designing software architecture, leading software development groups, and operating scalable software systems · · Requirement analysis, failure analysis, API design, distributed consistency · · Distributed caching (memcached, Redis, or comparable technology) · · Metrics, analysis, and software profiling · · Strong object-oriented design skills with understanding of common design paradigms · · Experience with Java or other object oriented languages- preferably on a UNIX or Linux platform including JVM internals or equivalent lower-level implementation · · Experience