Software Development Engineer, Amazon Ads
Amazon
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Advertising seeks the world’s brightest and best technical engineers to drive next-generation solutions that enable advertisers to reach customers across our owned and operated sites, on other high-quality publisher sites across the web, and on millions of desktops, mobile, and connected TV devices. Our mission is to offer the world’s most customer-centric advertising. Amazon DSP (ADSP) is Amazon’s programmatic advertising product for campaign spanning Display, Video, and Audio across Amazon properties (e.g., Amazon.com, IMDb TV, Twitch, Fire TV, and Amazon Music) and tens of thousands of third-party (3P) websites and apps. We seek candidates who want to join a team focused on building large-scale systems that integrate across multiple sources to provide unique advertising products. These products give advertisers the controls and data necessary to improve the relevancy and performance of their ads.
The Targeting team is responsible for empowering advertisers to define, refine, and better engage their customers. As a member of this team, you will play a critical role in surfacing and enabling action on the most relevant insights on demand, within the advertising tools and workflows our customers use. You will collaborate closely with data scientists, product managers, and cross-functional partners to build flexible, scalable, and privacy-preserving targeting capabilities that drive business results for our advertising clients. This includes implementing advanced large language models (LLMs) and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to extract valuable insights from unstructured data sources to drive an AI powered agent that provides advertisers with a tailorted experience to optimize on their campaigns. Additionally, you will contribute to the development of audience discovery, taxonomy, metadata, and permission tools that help advertisers identify new, high-value customer segments. If you're passionate about transforming the way advertisers understand and connect with their customers, this is an exciting opportunity to make a direct impact on Amazon's rapidly growing advertising platform.
Key job responsibilities
- Develop flexible, scalable, and privacy-preserving audience targeting capabilities that empower advertisers to define, refine, and better engage their customers
- Implement advanced large language models (LLMs) and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to extract valuable insights from unstructured data sources
- Experience in communicating with users and other technical teams to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs
- Proven ability delivering within a DevOps delivery model from scoping requirements, requirement analysis, design, development, test, CI/CD, security implementation, and operational excellence
- Work backwards from customer problems to drive business impact
- Invested in learning and being curious. Seeking to improve themselves
- Mentor and guide more junior engineers, sharing your expertise and best practices
About the team
Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign opportunities based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded contributor.