Amazon Advertising is dedicated to driving measurable outcomes for brand advertisers, agencies, authors, and entrepreneurs. Our ad solutions—including sponsored, display, video, and custom ads—leverage Amazon’s innovations and insights to find, attract, and engage intended audiences throughout their daily journeys. With a range of flexible pricing and buying models, including self-service, managed service, and programmatic ad buying, these solutions help businesses build brand awareness, increase product sales, and more.

We are looking for a senior software developer with a passion for dealing with internet scale datasets to work on Amazon's Analytics, Forecasting and Optimization Platform for advertising. Our platform is used across Amazon by a variety of advertising programs including Display, Video, Mobile and Kindle. Our team builds end-to-end solutions including data pipelines, large scale index data structures, time series models, software services and large scale data visualizations. Our systems are based on a mix of AWS and third-party technologies, using ones that make the best sense in a given scenario.

Key job responsibilities
Work closely with a group of highly talented and motivated software and data science engineers who build systems and models used to analyze petabytes of data
Build systems and models to analyze supply and demand side of our advertising business and devise optimization methods.
Work on analyzing exchange bidding behavior, time series modeling, optimal inventory allocation and many other exciting problems posed by a advertising business
Invent ways to overcome technical limitations and enable new forms of analyses that drive key business decisions
Investigate new technologies and champion adoption within the team
Work on a platform that spans Hadoop, Map/Reduce, Pig, FastBit, Redshift, and S3 using programming languages such as Java, C++ and Python
Mentor junior team members
Directly participate in setting the vision and objectives for strategic Amazon goals, in alignment with business needs and ad market dynamics.
Find new ways to use variety of Amazon's data sets to help one of the fastest growing businesses within Amazon

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

New York, NY, USA