Amazon Software Development Engineer - Search Marketing 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

446413335

- B.S. in computer science (or equivalent experience) is required; graduate degrees
- Experience building high-availability or large-scale internet scale systems
- Knowledge of advanced algorithms and data structures are significant pluses.Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining systems that enable Amazon to serve ads and free listings to search advertising vendors like Google, Bing, and Yahoo. You will apply the latest AWS technologies to develop large scaled distributed systems to provide the best advertising experience for our customers, while maximizing the return on marketing investments. While working on projects, you will get opportunities to lead other SDEs, partner with scientists, and partner with Product and Marketing Managers to translate business requirements into working solutions. You will also be involved in influencing the teams technical direction and roadmap by participating in team's planning and prioritization process.A day in the life
You will routinely be involved in designing and implementing new systems and features using AWS and Amazon proprietary technologies for automatically managing our advertising portfolio. You will actively participate in team discussions during daily standups and design reviews, and share knowledge during our recurring tech talks. You may partner with scientist to execute experiments to make data driven decisions. You will work with Senior Engineers and Principal Engineers to brainstorm ideas and learn from. You may collaborate with partner teams to build shared solutions to solve difficult problems at Amazon scale.

- 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

- 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