Amazoncom Hiring for Software Development Engineer, Social Marketing Job at Tacoma, WA Full Time

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The Social Marketing team owns Amazon’s automated advertising on social media apps like Facebook, Instagram, SnapChat, Pinterest, TikTok, and more. Our engineering team builds self-optimizing ad personalization engines that leverage integrated machine learning, massive data processing and adaptive algorithms to deliver ad performance. We use social graph signals and closed loop optimization to power our advertising engine. As a part of our team, you will have a chance to have a ground-up impact on our systems, our business, and most importantly, our customers, through the leadership of a team of engineers focused on scaling social advertising.

Our program goals driving sales of Amazon products and offers, driving customer acquisition to strategic programs such as Prime Video & Amazon Music, and downloads of Amazon’s mobile apps like Amazon Shopping app, Prime Video app, etc. This is a rapidly growing team at Amazon, and we’re building a top-notch team of engineers, scientists and engineering leaders. The problems we face are complex and interesting, including the information engineering and data mining of big data sets from both social media and Amazon. We build large scale, distributed systems using multiple AWS services, designed from ground up to make extensive use of machine learning and social graph data.

We are seeking a Software Development Engineer to join our team in our Seattle headquarters and help build the social advertising platform that will power large scale advertising programs on multiple social media apps. The team will build a wide range of large scale, multi-tiered distributed systems. Successful candidates must be innovative, flexible, have strong leadership skills and be able to work collaboratively with cross-functional business and software development teams to solve critical business problems. The ideal candidate will have experience working with large datasets, distributed computing technologies and service-oriented architecture.

The successful candidate is expected to contribute to all parts of the software development and deployment life cycle, including design, development, documentation, testing and operations. They must possess strong verbal and written communication skills, be self-driven and deliver high quality results in a fast paced environment. They need to really enjoy working closely with their peers in a group of very talented engineers.Basic Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Programming experience with at least one software programming language.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Equivalent experience to a Bachelor’s degree based on 3 years of work experience for every 1 year of education
• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
• Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
• Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years professional experience in software development
• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Experience with machine learning
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs

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.Basic Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Programming experience with at least one software programming language.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Equivalent experience to a Bachelor’s degree based on 3 years of work experience for every 1 year of education
• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
• Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
• Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years professional experience in software development
• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Experience with machine learning
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs

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.