Software Development Engineer
Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$143.7k - $194.4kFull-timePosted yesterday
About the role
The Ad Events Hub team builds the infrastructure behind the moment a customer sees a relevant ad, processing trillions of ads daily at high scale. Responsibilities include designing and owning tier-1 ad-serving services, building scalable cross-program systems, and driving architectural decisions to improve quality and reliability within Amazon Ads.
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 developmentSystem design / architectureProgramming languages
Benefits
- base salary range in Seattle area: 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
- sign-on payments and RSUs
- comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, life & AD&D with optional supplemental life plans), EAP, mental health support, FSA, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parental leave
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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