Overview

Self Service Performance Advertising provides the platform for some of Amazon’s fastest growing strategic businesses, such as Sponsored Products and Headline Search Ads. Our global advertising platform provides self-service low-latency systems for multiple performance-based advertising programs with large ad inventories. It supports both automated and advertiser-specified optimization controls and features particular integrations for using product data from across the entire Amazon catalog as a source of ad content. 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.

Our Advertiser Intelligence team is looking for a Software Engineer who will be involved in developing datasets and executing analyses that will shape the future of the Amazon Ads business. You will have an opportunity to work with big data and emerging technologies, while driving business intelligence solutions end-to-end: requirements, data modeling, database development, ETL, metadata, reporting, and dash-boarding. The role requires someone who has a passion for working with data, understands information systems, and has a strong business sense. You will be working with analytic tools, providing a comprehensive platform for customers to access their data; understanding your customers’ challenges, you can partner with customers to invent great solutions, and you are an advocate for your customers. You are analytical and creative, and you don’t quit.

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with business customers, gather requirements and deliver complete reporting solutions.
  • Design, implement, and support a platform that can provide ad-hoc access to large datasets.
  • Develop interactive dashboards, reports, and analysis templates.
  • Tune application and query performance using Unix profiling tools.
  • Understand user pain points and provide guidance to the team to develop and build solutions.
  • Learn and understand a broad range of Amazon’s data resources and know how, when, and which to use.
  • Surface metrics discrepancies across multiple systems and define mechanisms to ensure data consistency.
  • Ensure that we have a robust system, trouble-shoot, make recommendations and implement the changes.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • 2+ 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)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience influencing professional software engineering practices and best practices for shipping and supporting great software services
  • Experience with data mining, machine learning or predictive modeling systems
  • Working knowledge of Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark or other big data processing systems
  • General awesomeness in software engineering and life
  • Familiarity with the online advertising or e-commerce industry
  • Success with continuous integration and deployment practices

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual
Orientation.

About Amazon

Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform.

Founded by Jeff Bezos, the Amazon.com website started in 1995 as a place to buy books because of the unique customer experience the Web could offer book lovers. Bezos believed that only the Internet could offer customers the convenience of browsing a selection of millions of book titles in a single sitting. During the first 30 days of business, Amazon fulfilled orders for customers in 50 states and 45 countries - all shipped from his Seattle-area garage.

Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of innovation that is part of the company's DNA. The world's brightest technology minds come to Amazon.com to research and develop technology that improves the lives of shoppers and sellers around the world.

We're a company of pioneers. It's our job to make bold bets, and we get our energy from inventing on behalf of customers. Success is measured against the possible, not the probable. For today’s pioneers, that’s exactly why there’s no place on Earth they’d rather build than Amazon.

We are a company of builders who bring varying backgrounds, ideas, and points of view to inventing on behalf of our customers. Our diverse perspectives come from many sources including gender, race, age, national origin, sexual orientation, culture, education, as well as professional and life experience. We are working to develop leaders and shape future talent pools to help us meet the needs of our customers around the world.