How can Amazon improve the advertising experience for customers around the world? How can we help advertisers and customers find each other in a meaningful way? Amazon Advertising creates and transforms the connection between retailers/service providers and customers. Our teams strive to reinvent the way advertisers and agencies build brands and drive performance in their advertising. By using Amazon's foundation in e-commerce, we help brands connect with the right customers through creative solutions and formats across screens and devices, and in the physical world.

Amazon Advertising seeks a Software Development Engineer to join the Cross-Product Performance engineering team in Edinburgh. We make Reporting and Recommendations products that fuel our customer's advertising campaign workflows and performance. We do this via the generation of actionable insights from big data sets (e.g., ad serving and campaign performance data) and make these insights available through self-service notifications and reporting mechanisms. You will join a team that owns the business, technology and operations, giving you the responsibility and authority to ensure success. You will be involved in every aspect of the process from idea generation, business analysis and technical design through to software development across a variety of technologies. Your systems will meet remarkably high standards of performance and reliability, and will operate at massive scale, 24x7.

Successful candidates will get chance to solve complex and broad business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices, building solutions that scale and perform.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
· Non-internship professional software development experience
· Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Advanced programming skills (concurrency, profiling and performance optimisation).
· Designed and built complex systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling).
· Experience in web and user-interface development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS).
· Experience in basic data manipulation and analysis, including command-line tools and scripting.



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