Home Working With Us Jobs Students & Graduates Early Insights Contact Open Positions Open Positions › Software Development Engineer - Advertiser Insights and Performance Software Development Engineer - Advertiser Insights and Performance Job Description How can Amazon improve the advertising experience for customers around the world? How can we help advertisers and customers find each other in a meaningful way? Amazon Advertising creates and transforms the connection between retailers/service providers and customers. Our teams strive to reinvent the way advertisers and agencies build brands and drive performance in their advertising. By using Amazon's foundation in e-commerce, we help brands connect with the right customers through creative solutions and formats across screens and devices, and in the physical world. Amazon Advertising seeks a Software Development Engineer to join the Cross-Product Performance engineering team in Edinburgh. We make Reporting and Recommendations products that fuel our customer's advertising campaign workflows and performance. We do this via the generation of actionable insights from big data sets (e.g., ad serving and campaign performance data) and make these insights available through self-service notifications and reporting mechanisms. You will join a team that owns the business, technology and operations, giving you the responsibility and authority to ensure success. You will be involved in every aspect of the process from idea generation, business analysis and technical design through to software development across a variety of technologies. Your systems will meet remarkably high standards of performance and reliability, and will operate at massive scale, 24x7. Successful candidates will get chance to solve complex and broad business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices, building solutions that scale and perform. Basic Qualifications Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems Non-internship professional software development experience Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design Preferred Qualifications Advanced programming skills (concurrency, profiling and performance optimisation). Designed and built complex systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling). Experience in web and user-interface development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS). Experience in basic data manipulation and analysis, including command-line tools and scripting. Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify, and build. All offers are conditional on references, verification of the right to work in the UK, and successful background screening check. This will include previous employment verification, qualification verification (if relevant) and a basic criminal check. Further details of this policy/procedure will be sent to you along with your conditional offer. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Consult our Privacy Notice to know more about how we collect, use, and transfer the personal data of our candidates. Apply Share by email © 2021 Amazon Development Centre Scotland