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Job summary
Amazon’s Advertising team build the technology infrastructure and ad serving systems to manage billions of advertising events every day. The result is better quality advertising for publishers and more relevant ads for customers.

Ad Server For Amazon is one of the largest buy-side advertising platforms. Ad Server For Amazon provides powerful, integrated solutions that enable data, creative, and media to work together for optimal campaign performance across the entire customer journey. Our AI-driven decision engine can identify robust insights within data across the five key dimensions of predictive marketing—campaigns, consumers, context, creative, and cost. Ad Server For Amazon operates its platform in more than 70 countries, with local offices in many countries providing award-winning service throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, and connecting more than 20,000 advertisers and 3,600 agencies to audiences around the world.

We are responsible for end to end processing of impressions, views, clicks as well as video interaction events or rich media events in ads.
Our data is committed to getting things done, be the fastest, most high-fidelity data as it is both billable, critical to checking the heartbeat of a campaign and changes made to it during its lifecycle.

In this role you will have the freedom (and encouragement) to experiment, improve, invent, and innovate under the team domain - Data! You will be responsible for designing and Implementing features, creating monitoring to ensure system stability and analysing data.

Key job responsibilities
Work with your peers to develop against our product backlog. Strive to identify innovative ways to improve and create scalable engineering solutions that are robust, highly available and have a high degree of operational excellence.

You will be involved with architecture and design, Java and JavaScript development, building and maintaining AWS infrastructure and operating a large complex data processing pipeline.

About the team
Our teams strive to operate an efficient data processing pipeline, ensuring accuracy, freshness and security. We pay particular attention to Media Ratings Council regulations and build various mechanisms to ensure data quality and transparency.

The team is diverse and geographically distributed, based in Edinburgh, Israel, Poland and the US. We have established ways of working remotely and there are many opportunities to be onsite to collaborate and socialise.

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

• Degree or equivalent in computer science / software engineering or related field
• Industry experience in software development
• Ability to understand overall system functionality
• Understanding of OOP and Design patterns
• Ability to analyse datasets
• Willingness to work with different technologies (to find the most suitable solution to each challenge)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in EMR, Spark and general AWS services
• Solid Java engineering skills
• Experience with Agile Scrum, continues delivery and integration environments
• Experience with DevOps, Operational Excellence & system monitoring.

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