DESCRIPTION
Amazon World Wide Advertising - The Advertising Products group is at the center of Advertising for Amazon.com and our third party advertisers. We are innovating at the intersection of advertising and Ecommerce. Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP, the worlds largest ad agency has said, Amazon is an emerging threat to Facebook and Google in the digital advertising space. He also said that Amazon worries him when he goes to bed at night and wakes up in the morning. Come join that team!
The Advertising Platform team builds the core technology powering one of Amazon's fastest growing strategic businesses. From the center of our technology platform, you have the ability to work on some of our largest-scale and most technically complex problems and your contributions will be magnified across a variety of use cases.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C including object-oriented design
1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field
Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as C++, Java, or C
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
7+ years experience required
Experience leading technical teams and large architecture projects
MySQL or similar database experience
Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability
Experience with Amazon Web Services
Experience in software development and full product life-cycles
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer.
Seattle, WA
Amazon.com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products and subscriptions in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) segments. It sells merchandise and content purchased for resale from third-party sellers through physical stores and online stores.
The company also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TVs, and Echo devices; provides Kindle Direct Publishing, an online service that allows independent authors and publishers to make their books available in the Kindle Store; and develops and produces media content.
In addition, it offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products on its Websites, as well as their own branded Websites; and programs that allow authors, musicians, filmmakers, skill and app developers, and others to publish and sell content. Further, the company provides compute, storage, database, and other AWS services, as well as compute, storage, database offerings, fulfillment, publishing, digital content subscriptions, advertising, and co-branded credit card agreement services.
Additionally, it offers Amazon Prime, a membership program, which provides free shipping of various items; access to streaming of movies and TV episodes; and other services. It serves consumers, sellers, developers, enterprises, and content creators. Amazon.com, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Volkswagen AG. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.