Software Development Engineer, IMDb, Advertising Technology - Amazon

Description IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. The IMDb consumer site (www.imdb.com) is the #1 movie website in the world with a combined web and mobile audience of more than 250 million unique monthly visitors. At IMDb, you'll be joining a team of seasoned leaders who value execution and decision making at the speed of startups, but with the backing and resources of Amazon. You will be given an opportunity to own and drive initiatives through the entire software stack -- from customer facing features and data innovations to cross-team collaboration on advertising platform services. You will be an engineer building features that drive revenue to the #1 entertainment site in the world. You love challenging problems, collaborating with stakeholder teams, defining roadmaps, design creative technical solutions, and mentoring more junior engineers. Impact: As a software development engineer, you will own one or more key initiatives in IMDb Advertising and have the freedom to drive the architecture and development of complex advertising products collaborating across IMDb consumer, app, and the entire vertical of Amazon Advertising Platform teams. You influence strategic changes in the Amazon Advertising Platform that will benefit both IMDb and other third-party publishers thus feeding the Amazon flywheel. We solve advertising problems across diverse international regions and build solutions of massive scale across desktop and mobile platforms. We support a culture of innovation through experimentation and directly partner with Sales and Marketing to build successful products for our business that our customers love. We have high technical standards and support you to lead the team to reach for new engineering excellence leveraging internal Amazon technologies as well as AWS services like EC2 and Lambda. You will set the standard for engineering, testing, and operational excellence, drive best practices across organization. IMDb employees enjoy the benefits of working for Amazon with the autonomy of working on a small, nimble team. Key job responsibilities Key job responsibilities * Maintain and develop advertising services and related features for IMDb * Help drive the migration of IMDb's Advertising onto new Amazon advertising publisher technology * Innovate on improving ad targeting capabilities and collaborate with other teams inside IMDb and Amazon to bring your vision to life * Drive architectural and OE initiatives within AdTech About the team The IMDb AdTech team is a friendly, highly collaborative group of engineers that loves delivering innovative software solutions for our advertisers and consumer customers. We are supported by the best Product Managers, Ad Operations team, and Sales teams in the business. Together we set lofty goals and have fun achieving them and seeing our business grow. 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 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. 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.