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Did you ever have a situation where you were shown an embarrassing content when you were sharing a screen with your parent or child? Did you ever feel the content is not of high quality or irrelevant? Do you want to be part of the solution that Amazon is working on to make sure you or millions of Amazon customer never face this? Do you want to be part of the team that is responsible for the Amazon Advertisement experience to its world wide customers?

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business. Our team is responsible for ensuring that the adverts that we serve to customers meet the same high quality bar that amazon holds for all our customers.

We're looking for outstanding candidates to join us as full-time Software Development Engineers in our friendly, international team in central Edinburgh. You will work as part of an Agile team to own the automation of policy, quality, and content checks on hundreds of thousands of adverts. As an engineer, you will be involved in every aspect of the process - from idea generation, business analysis and technical design through to development and deployment across a variety of technologies - giving you a real sense of ownership. Together we build systems which meet high standards of performance and reliability and operate at scale.

We're looking for engineers who can delight customers by continually learning and inventing, and have excellent communication and collaboration skills to work on projects that span the whole of Amazon Advertising, with teams worldwide. Successful candidates won't only work as the protectors for our customers, they'll also be motivated to build using the latest technologies, our stack is using the latest serverless technologies like Lambda and Fargate and many components that we rely on heavily came from the innovations driven by team members like ElasticSearch & Rekognition.

The position offers exceptional opportunities for every candidate to grow their technical and non-technical skills. If you are selected, you have the opportunity to really make a difference to our business by inventing, enhancing and building world class systems, delivering results, working on exciting and challenging projects.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Computer Science Honours degree or postgraduate study (in lieu of degree, relevant skills and equivalent experience).
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• Non-internship professional software development experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with Algorithms, data-structures, efficiency, concurrency, performance optimization.
• Object-oriented development and design patterns.
• Automated testing, refactoring, source control management, continuous integration.
• Strong analytical and excellent problem solving skills.
• Good Linux/UNIX knowledge, including command-line tools and scripting
• Knowledge of databases including SQL, noSQL, schema design and indexing/optimization
• Experience working with cloud computing to build large-scale and high-availability distributed systems.
• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.