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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.

The Ad Data Management team, based in Seattle, is responsible for building an analytics platform that enables business insights to our customers. We deal with one of the world’s largest product catalog, handle billions of requests a day with plans to grow it by order of magnitude. We are looking for a highly motivated, top notch engineer to revamp existing systems and build new ones from the ground up. A successful candidate will have demonstrated experience in at least some of the following areas: building distributed high scale systems, building and scaling very large data processing platforms using distributed computing technologies such as Map/Reduce, Spark, transactional systems and data persistence using dynamoDB/RDBMS, algorithm development for efficient scheduling, sampling, queuing, classification, etc.

As an experienced member of the team, in this role, you will:

• Drive the technical direction of Amazon Advertising core analytics platform's offerings and solutions, working with latest technologies.

• Design business critical services, code and own what you build architecturally and operationally.

• Mentor and assist in the career development of junior engineers.

• Assist with recruiting and hiring.

• Decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions

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

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

• Strong proven ability in building high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems

• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scale-ability, and availability

• Knowledge about Hadoop, Spark, Hive, or any other distributed data processing engine is a definite plus!

• Strong sense of ownership and drive

• Sharp problem solving skills and ability to resolve ambiguous requirements

• Ability to learn new technologies and systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in computer science or equivalent, or 4+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

• Expertise in Map/Reduce systems such as Hadoop / Hive / Flume.

• Knowledge of HTTP Protocol, REST, XML, Java, Scala, Python, Pyspark a plus

• Experience in SQL, data modeling skills and Machine learning or web crawling

• Familiarity with Pay for performance Ad model and the Internet advertisement industry is a plus

• Experience with Amazon Web Services is a plus

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.