Description

We enable never been done before customer experiences at scale! Our work runs across the Amazon.com sites, shopping app, and Fire TV.

We are the engineering team behind Brand Innovation Lab, Amazon's award winning advertising team. Specifically, our vision is to enable every developer and creative to do their best work. Not limited by capacity, but only by their imagination.

Our mission is to improve the efficiency and capabilities of how we build and operate our business. Our teams are extremely talented, and it is our duty to empower them to do their best work.

We do this by improving the effectiveness of development teams through developer tooling, removing repetitive tasks across job families, and expanding the capabilities and data we have access to.

Key job responsibilities

• Improve core developer tooling, such as our analytics stack and UI libraries

• Unlock new capabilities, by integrating with 1P and 3P APIs

• Improve the reliability of our services, by improving monitoring and CI/CD pipelines

• Design new solutions to automate away repetitive tasks from the business

• Evolve the architecture of our existing systems to handle new business requirements

• Work across the technical stack, writing infrastructure as code, updating services and UI frameworks

A day in the life

• Participate in the team's daily stand-up meeting, following a Kanban methodology

• Write high-quality, maintainable, and efficient code, adhering to best practices and coding standards.

• Engage in code reviews, providing feedback and ensuring code quality through a Pull Request style process.

• Drive and evaluate architectural decisions that shape the team's software, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.

• Proactively engage with business stakeholders, product managers, and creatives to understand requirements, ideate innovative solutions, and align technical implementations with strategic goals.

• Contribute to the team's on-call rotation (typically once every 5 weeks), resolving production issues as they arise.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

• Full-stack expertise: infrastructure as code, microservices, building web-based front-end interfaces.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.