Contract Amazon Software Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

Build new experiences that help hundreds of thousands of advertisers get the most from their campaigns - creating intelligent systems that make independent decisions in real-time, scale at high volume, and interact with customers through rich interfaces. This is AI-first engineering on the tools advertisers use daily to manage their advertising strategies on Amazon.
The Measurement and Data Science (MADS) Reporting User Experience team owns the software that hundreds of thousands of advertisers use to manage their advertising strategies across Amazon Ads. These tools are also a fast-evolving fabric enabling rapid development by teams across Ads. You'll adopt AI-first SDLC practices, interface with external systems, and build architectures that are exemplary in robustness, stability, and scalability. You'll collaborate with software leaders, product leaders, and senior engineers to deliver innovative products our global customers use daily - with the opportunity to expand your technical skills into emerging technologies.
Key job responsibilities
- Design and build experiences that enable advertisers to optimize their campaigns through intelligent, autonomous systems
- Build high-volume, scalable systems that interface with external systems and make independent decisions in real-time
- Define architectural strategy and lead the design of software systems exemplary in robustness, stability, and scalability
- Adopt AI-first SDLC practices to accelerate development and delivery across the team
- Collaborate with software leaders, product leaders, and engineering peers to deliver innovative ads products used by global customers daily
- Contribute to the fast-evolving platform fabric that enables rapid development by teams across Amazon Ads
- Dive deep into complex problems and deliver solutions that directly improve the advertiser experience
A day in the life
Great candidates for this role enjoy being challenged with discovering solutions to complex problems, diving deep, and thinking big to deliver amazing results for our customers. They enjoy defining architectural strategy, working collaboratively, and take pride in solving customer problems. Most important, they will work shoulder-to-shoulder with other senior engineers, product leaders, and software development managers to deliver truly innovative software.
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
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design 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
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, TX, Austin - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually