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Software Development Engineer, Ads - Publisher Technology

Amazon.com Inc
  • Palo Alto, CA
    3 days ago

    Job Description

    Amazon"s advertising technology powers billions of ad auctions every day, connecting publishers with advertisers to deliver relevant ads and fund the content audiences rely on.

    Ads Publisher Technologies (PubTech) builds the ad serving infrastructure at the center of this - processing real-time auctions across web, mobile, streaming video, audio, and connected TV for publishers including Prime Video, Twitch, and Tubi. We give publishers access to Amazon"s demand and the tools to grow their ad revenue, so they can focus on publishing.

    As an SDE on the PubTech Ad Serving team, you will design and build the distributed services that process real-time bid requests at scale. You will work across the ad serving stack - publisher integrations, auction mechanics, bidder protocols, and privacy enforcement - and own features that directly affect publisher revenue and advertiser outcomes.

    Key job responsibilities

    • Design and build reliable, low-latency services that process real-time OpenRTB bid requests across global regions.
    • Architect and evolve publisher integrations across web, mobile, STV, and audio inventory types.
    • Build auction and pricing infrastructure that maximizes publisher yield while enforcing buyer controls, privacy regulations, and brand safety signals.
    • Drive reliability and observability improvements across the ad serving stack, owning availability, latency, and correctness metrics end-to-end.
    • Partner with engineers and product managers to deliver features that improve publisher yield and buyer experience.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationPalo Alto, CA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
    Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

    Skills

    • Ad Servingunmatched
    • Audio Streamingunmatched
    • Metricsunmatched
    • Pricingunmatched
    • Privacy Controlsunmatched
    • Privacy Protocolsunmatched
    • Privacy Regulationsunmatched
    • Productivity Managementunmatched
    • Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
    • Reliability Engineeringunmatched
    • Revenue Growthunmatched
    • Software Developmentunmatched
    • Software Engineeringunmatched
    • Video Streamingunmatched

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