Come help us to build a world-class Public API and framework as part of one of Amazon's fastest growing strategic businesses; Performance Advertising. Our global platform provides self-service low-latency systems at massive scale for Sponsored Brands and Sponsored Products. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth, and as such our organization's initiatives are highly visible to Amazon's executive leadership. We are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities, and have been a broad mandate to aggressively experiment and innovate. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to participate in the full development lifecycle of Amazon's public Advertising API and advertising feed ingestion services. These services are instrumental to enabling advertisers and their partners to easily create, manage and optimize advertising campaigns through programmatic and file-based interfaces
· 4+ years of industry experience in architecting, implementing and operating scalable distributed software systems · Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective and productive · Strong written and verbal communication skills · Big ideas and a tiny ego. Tiny Eggo™ optional. Co-workers will always accept waffles of any size. · BS or MS degree in Computer Science (or a related field) or equivalent experience. · Experience influencing professional software engineering practices and best practices for shipping and supporting great software services