We are looking for a Programmer Writer to help document Amazon's public Advertising API. The services that make up the Amazon Advertising API are instrumental to enabling advertisers and their partners to easily create, manage, and optimize advertising campaigns through programmatic and file-based interfaces. And even the most user-friendly API requires organized, well-written, and complete documentation to enable our customers to be successful.

Key job responsibilities
You’ll work with our internal teams to create documentation, code samples, and other types of content for both Amazon Advertising’s customers and internal teams. You’ll gather feedback and develop ways to make your content more discoverable and enable our customers to be as effective and efficient as possible. You’ll help develop content strategy and set priorities. You’ll have a direct impact on customers, working closely with external integrators who build their applications using the Advertising API.

Ideally, you have a strong technical background and demonstrated experience creating high-quality code samples and technical documentation. Your content will be critical for a diverse audience consisting of application developers, data scientists, and end users. Experience with RESTful APIs and big data is a bonus, and it's even better if you have experience with Linux and tools such as Git. We don't expect you to be an expert in every area, but we hope you have passion for learning about these technologies and teaching our customers how to use them.


A day in the life

In this role, you’ll work with our internal teams to create documentation, code samples, and other types of content for both Amazon Advertising’s customers and internal teams. You’ll gather feedback and develop ways to make your content more discoverable and enable our customers to be as effective and efficient as possible. You’ll help develop content strategy and set priorities. You’ll have a direct impact on customers, working closely with external integrators who build their applications using the Advertising API.

About the team
We are responsible for defining how all Amazon Ads features are surfaced to customers through our public APIs. We are champions of Domain Driven Development and API-first around the organization, and obsess over making our APIs a delight to integrate with. Our mission is to make Amazon Ads APIs easy for customers to integrate with, and easy for internal teams to extend. We do this by promoting code reuse internally and externally to make sure no one has to reinvent the wheel when we launch new functionality.* Bachelor’s degree in writing or relevant experience.
* 5+ years experience writing for a developer audience— product documentation, project readme’s, or any other content that teaches technical concepts to developers.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills.* Experience planning and delivering content projects.
* Experience working on or closely with software development teams.
* Experience working with agile project management methodologies.
* Experience working with markdown and documentation-as-code systems.
* Experience working with Git or a similar distributed version control system.
* Working knowledge of REST, OAuth, transactional and NoSQL data stores and big data processing systems
* General awesomeness in software engineering and life
* Bonus points: Familiarity with the online advertising or e-commerce industry

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $70,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $173,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.