Job Description

DESCRIPTIONHave you ever been shown an irrelevant ad? How about and an embarrassing one with a child or parent watching? Here, you can help us be part of Amazon\'s solution to ensuring you and millions of customer like you never face this. Here, you can help us make a world wide impact on the Amazon Advertising experience. Amazon is investing in building a world class advertising business and our team is responsible for ensuring that the ads served to customers meet the same high quality bar that you\'ve come to love and trust.We\'re looking for an outstanding candidate to join us as a full-time Senior Software Development Engineer. You will work as part of an agile team to help drive automation of ad moderation, quality, and content checks world wide. As an engineer, you will be involved in the full software development lifecycle from idea generation to delivery and operation.Successful candidates are not just great coders, they are engineers who can delight customers through innovation, have excellent communication and collaboration skills and are motivated to build lasting full stack technologies using the latest systems like AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and Bedrock. Bring all that you already know and come ready and eager to learn and innovate together.Key job responsibilities

• Research, design and code, troubleshoot and support. What you create is also what you own.

Own systems end-to-end including requirements clarification, design, implementation and roll-out to customers.

• Improve the team\'s development processes and thereby increase developer productivity.
• Coach junior members of the team, and actively participate in code and design reviews.
• Contribute to evolving the technical direction of Ad Trust and play a critical role their design and development

A day in the life
As a Sr Software Development Engineer in the Ad Trust engineering team

• You will build engineering systems and features to support human ad moderation.
• You will also build scalable tools and infrastructure that will be used to measure moderation quality.
• You will be challenged to work on optimisation problem for moderation task routing algorithm.
• You will get to use latest distributed systems and big data technologies such as AWS Lambda, ECS, Elastic Search, DDB, SQS, SNS, Apache Spark, and EMR.

About the team
The Advertising Trust (AT) organization is at the center of Amazon Ads, one of Amazon\'s fastest growing businesses. Every ad that flows through our Amazon systems, or is presented on one of our owned and operated sites, needs to adhere to the policies that AT creates. 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.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering teamPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ 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

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