Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and at ACS (Ads Core Services) we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and a bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities that are shaping the future of both advertising as well as e-commerce.

Advertising is one of the fastest growing businesses within Amazon, empowering Amazon Sellers, Vendors, Authors, and Publishers to boost their product reach and sales through performance and display advertising.
The Iron Mountain team within ACS is an enabler for Sponsored Ads' worldwide rapid growth and offers a singular platform to manage all of the advertiser facing functions like billing, invoicing, accounting automation, budgets, promotions, payments, and Billing Advertiser Experience(AX) in real-time while being transparent and audit-able from the ground-up. As a part of this high-energy, entrepreneurial team you will get an opportunity to innovate on solutions that control the very levers of our advertisers' experience and have the satisfaction of seeing your work impacting multiple advertising business and bring in multi-million transactions worth 100x in dollar value on a daily basis. This platform owns these mandates for worldwide advertising displayed On or Off Amazon.

The Iron Mountain team is looking for a Software Development Engineer to participate in building a global, scalable, extensible, and secure back-end applications for Billing, Budgeting, Payments, Promotions and Advertiser Experience(AX). These applications have to be capable of seamlessly interacting with different downstream ad serving platforms, billing and budgeting systems for the broad variety of Advertisement programs with no loss in information and builds customer facing front-end applications to enable frictionless billing, budgeting and payments for advertising. This platform has to guarantee a SLA of milliseconds to ensure that real time front-end experience of advertisers are not impacted. To build this platform you will need to be well versed with high performance and distributed architecture.

Key Technical Challenges:
Distributed and Scalable Architecture: Looking at advertising international expansion and business growth plans for next year, we expect this traffic to grow 10X in near future. Billing systems should be easily scalable to manage an exponential increase in business and extensible to support different business needs.

High Availability: These are highly available back-end applications. Downtime in Accounting systems can cause a huge loss in revenue and loss of business opportunity for our advertisers. High Availability architecture is to make sure that the system is configured to handle different loads and different failures with minimal or no downtime.

Key responsibilities:
- You own what you and your team creates.
- You work with your team to invent, design, and build software that is stable, performant, secure, and accessibility compliant. You work on feature ideas with customers, designers, product managers, stakeholders, and peers.
- You increase the speed of implementation of backend features by identifying and mitigating design risks early.
- You view your interface creations from the customer’s point of view.
- You are judicious when introducing dependencies and efficient with resource usage (e.g., application impact on memory and CPU, cache appropriately, respectful of customer’s devices, etc.).
- The fast growing Iron Mountain team today has members across Bangalore, Seattle, and New York, and like the advertising business is truly global in spirit!
What is Amazon Advertising?
Amazon Advertising is a set of tools offered to advertisers - sellers, vendors, authors, publishers, and more - to increasing the visibility of their products and services on Amazon, using Cost-per-click (CPC) and Cost-per-impression (CPM) programs. At the scale of Amazon it is extremely important for our advertisers to have the right set of controls to create and boost their advertising presence to gain customers and create long term value.

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