Software Development Engineer, Amazon Ads DSP

Job description

Who are we? Amazon Advertising builds and manages systems with high performance and availability. We serve and respond to hundreds of billions of requests annually, and have ambitions to grow that number several orders of magnitude, while maintaining response latencies in the milliseconds and meeting strict SLA requirements. We delight in data, and are constantly trying to enrich our models and make more informed decisions using every bit and byte we have. This role is in our bidding data and analytics team. We operate at scale, making sense of terabytes of hourly data. Our data outputs power multiple critical parts of the Advertising business, and we operate with high-availability principles. We're at a point of rapid change, both for our business and our architecture, bringing numerous opportunities for strategic and design-level thinking. We seek to leverage industry standards (OpenRTB, VAST, Native, etc) when suitable, and define new standards when appropriate to help the ad tech industry evolve and improve. Who are you? You are a strong Software Development Engineer who is passionate about performance and efficiency in a real time system and big data. You have demonstrable experience in diving deep into performance critical systems where every single millisecond of…