SDE I, Measurement, Ad Tech, and Data Science (MADS)

<div>We measure the impact of advertising at Amazon scale and operate one of the largest big data analytics systems at Amazon. If big data, distributed systems or just creating a large impact motivates you, join us.<br/><br/>**What we do**<br/><br/>We are a team of builders who build highly-scalable applications that measure performance of ads for all of Amazon's advertisers. We create algorithms that use verifiable techniques to produce accurate, actionable and timely measurements for advertisers to understand their campaign performance. We design systems that use AWS (EMR with Spark, Kinesis, ECS) to process over 50 billion events per day and we are constantly inventing new ways to delight our customers and stay ahead of our growing scale. It is always Day 1 for us!<br/><br/>**What you will do**<br/><br/>You will work with technical leaders to design and create our next generation processing platform. You will work with product managers and stakeholders to invent new patterns to release some of our advertisers' most-requested features and launch them directly to advertisers. You will own and operate business-critical systems, work with petabytes of data to answer advertiser and product questions and collaborate with a group of exceptional SDEs, scientists, program managers and product managers.<br/><br/><b>BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b><br/><br/>- 1+ years of non-internship professional software development experience<br/><br/>- Experience programming with at least one software programming language<br/><br/><b>PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b><br/><br/>- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent<br/><br/>The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.<br/><br/>CAN, ON, Toronto - 89,700.00 - 149,800.00 CAD annually</div>

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