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***We are open to this position sitting in NYC, Seattle, Austin, Toronto, Arlington, or Boulder***

Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of e-Commerce and Advertising, offering a rich array advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business to help advertisers reach Amazon customers across our owned and operated sites, on other high-quality sites across the web, and on millions of Kindles, streaming services, and mobile devices.

Our team's mandate is to accelerate adoption of the Amazon Shopper Panel, a new program that helps advertisers understand how their ads support their sales at other retailers €“ and through panel surveys, helps them improve their products and grow their businesses. It also provides immediate rewards to participants who choose to join the panel, and will benefit all of our customers in the form of better shopping, product, and advertising experiences.

As a Software Development Engineer III 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.

You will be working with Scala, Java, & Go in a web services based environment. You will be an expert in Apache/Spark and proficient with Big Data & Mobile 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 modeling. There are opportunities to expand existing offerings and building new systems from ground up.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

4+ years of professional software development experience
3+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language
2+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
Experience as a mentor, tech lead OR leading an engineering team

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 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.