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Amazon Software Development Engineer - II, Amazon Ads in Chicago, Illinois
Description
Amazon is investing in building a world class Advertising business. Our team, the Advertising Sales Engineering team is at the head of this growth to enable our sales teams deliver at scale. Our goal is to accelerate the manually intensive sales operations by building required services and self-service applications.
This is a team with a focused initiative, looking for a motivated Software Development Engineers / SDEs with a proven track record of building web applications and services at scale. You’ll be responsible for owning, designing and delivering highly scalable systems. We’re a fast-growing team with a very high focus from business to grow. Lots of opportunities to grow and no chance of getting bored!
A successful engineer in this role is :
Highly analytical: You solve problems in innovative ways that help us achieve our success metrics. You focus on driving processes, tools, and statistical methods which support rational decision-making.
Team obsessed: You help grow your team members to achieve outstanding results. You foster a creative atmosphere letting engineers innovate, while holding them accountable for making smart decisions and delivering results.
You’re ambitious, yet humble: You recognize that there’s always opportunity for improvement and use introspection and feedback from teammates and peers to raise the bar.
Engaged by ambiguity: You're able to explore new problem spaces with unique constraints and thus non-obvious solutions; you’re quick to identify any gaps with a goal of delivering value to our customers.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Key job responsibilities
You will:
Own technical vision and direction: You identify problems and develop solutions; you embrace performance metrics and measurement techniques because they help you assess how well system-related services are running.
Build and grow your team: You'll be a key contributor on an engineering team that delivers results. You'll be an example of Amazon's leadership principles and work to grow more leaders within your group.
Collaborate on product direction: You’ll build and maintain strong relationships between engineering and partner disciplines (e.g. Product, User Experience) to ensure that we're focused on delivering the right product(s) for our customers.
A day in the life
Our team is comprised of engineers, scientist and PMs, focused on building technical solutions that empower Amazon teams to invent on behalf of our Advertiser Customers worldwide. Our customers include both internal and external. Our team is in the early stage and being built from scratch. We follow Scrum process and work as a startup.
About the team
We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, our goal is to accelerate the otherwise human-intensive sales operations by investing in strategic self-service applications. We will accelerate the productivity of internal sales executives and external Ad agencies.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Chicago, IL, USA
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
Preferred Qualifications
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
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.