Amazon.com

Software Development Engineer II

Posted on: 15 Feb 2021

New York City, New York

Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we work to improve Amazon performance for brand advertisers by providing them with actionable retail+ads analytics. We also deliver retail+ads information services enabling Amazon partner teams to provide brands with automated campaign management experiences.

You will be working with Scala & Java in a web services based environment. You will be an expert in Apache/Spark and proficient with Big Data technologies coming up with innovative solutions when building highly performant distributed systems. Knowledge of relational and non-relational databases is a necessary skill combined with strong data modelling. There are opportunities to expand existing offerings and building new systems from ground up.

As a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon, you will drive appropriate technology choices for the business, lead the way for continuous innovation, and shape the future of e-commerce. You will design, implement, troubleshoot and see your solutions live.

A successful candidate will have the satisfaction of seeing their work on the Amazons advertising websites, where it will be viewed by up to a million advertising customers and will drive significantly quantifiable revenue impact, broaden their technical skills and work in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and product innovation.
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.

3+ 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.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelors in Computer Science or related field
5+ years industry experience in software development and full product life-cycles
5+ years of hands on coding skills in Java (C, C++) coupled with strong base in object-oriented design and development
Strong proven ability in building high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems
Experience with object oriented design and development
5+ years of experience with SQL and data modeling skills
Experience in building solutions of sizable scope and complexity
Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availabilityExperience with Hadoop, HBase, Pig, Spark
Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
Experience with Amazon Web Services
Experience with search engine and indexing systems such as Solr/Lucene or Nutch

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.

Amazon.com

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.