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Software Development Engineer II, Brand Innovation Lab

Amazon

Amazon

Software Engineering
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Oct 3, 2024

DESCRIPTION

We enable never been done before customer experiences at scale! Our work runs across the Amazon.com sites, shopping app, and Fire TV.

We are the engineering team behind Brand Innovation Lab, Amazon's award winning advertising team. Specifically, our vision is to enable every developer and creative to do their best work. Not limited by capacity, but only by their imagination.

Our mission is to improve the efficiency and capabilities of how we build and operate our business. Our teams are extremely talented, and it is our duty to empower them to do their best work.

We do this by improving the effectiveness of development teams through developer tooling, removing repetitive tasks across job families, and expanding the capabilities and data we have access to.

Key job responsibilities
- Improve core developer tooling, such as our analytics stack and UI libraries
- Unlock new capabilities, by integrating with 1P and 3P APIs
- Improve the reliability of our services, by improving monitoring and CI/CD pipelines
- Design new solutions to automate away repetitive tasks from the business
- Evolve the architecture of our existing systems to handle new business requirements
- Work across the technical stack, writing infrastructure as code, updating services and UI frameworks

A day in the life
- Participate in the team's daily stand-up meeting, following a Kanban methodology
- Write high-quality, maintainable, and efficient code, adhering to best practices and coding standards.
- Engage in code reviews, providing feedback and ensuring code quality through a Pull Request style process.
- Drive and evaluate architectural decisions that shape the team's software, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.
- Proactively engage with business stakeholders, product managers, and creatives to understand requirements, ideate innovative solutions, and align technical implementations with strategic goals.
- Contribute to the team's on-call rotation (typically once every 5 weeks), resolving production issues as they arise.