Software Development Engineer
Amazon· Software Development
Seattle, WA$143.7k - $194.4kFull-timePosted yesterday
About the role
The Ad Events Hub team builds the infrastructure behind the moment a customer scrolls and sees a relevant ad, processing trillions of ads daily at scale. Works on data systems powering the ad serving stack across Amazon’s advertising businesses, including a signal intelligence layer and a distributed ultra-scale caching layer. Collaborates with Engineers, Scientists, Product Managers, and Program Managers to deliver advertising experiences and push the boundaries of AI technologies within a high-availability environment.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and own tier-1 services that determine ad-serving eligibility across Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, and Sponsored Display
- Build global, auto-scalable, high-throughput services that work across all ad programs — from campaign management through event logging
- Collaborate with software engineers, scientists, Product Managers, and Program Managers to deliver compelling advertiser and customer experiences
- Set technical direction for services spanning multiple Sponsored Ad programs, contributing to architectural decisions that ensure sustained, rapid feature delivery
- Lead and inspire teammates to raise the bar on software quality, reliability, and operational excellence
- Measure success through quality of execution, pace of innovation, and increased customer and advertiser satisfaction
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
Skills
Required:Software design and architectureProgrammingObject-oriented design
Benefits
- base salary with sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
- comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and life insurance options
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off and parental leave
- accommodations during application and hiring process available
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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