Senior Software Development Engineer, Ads AI Core Infra

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business, and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service 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 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.

Ads AI Core Infra (ACI) organization owns services supporting many functions across the advertising lifecycle, like Accounts, Permissions, Campaign Management, Builder Productivity, Analytics, and Availability and Quality Assurance. Our top focus areas are to innovate on behalf of our customers, support partner business launches, and improve our engineering systems for feature velocity, availability, performance, and scale. This role will see you collaborate with a large number of teams across WW Advertising to drive key initiatives to improve the resilience of advertising systems. You'll become part of a highly motivated team of talented multi-functional builders (front and back-end developers) who can collaborate with product managers, technical specialists, and principals across the company. You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that’s higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems that haven’t been solved at scale before - anywhere. You will encounter challenging, novel situations every day, and given the size of this initiative, you’ll have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon in different locations. We’re looking for self-motivated engineers who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, can demonstrate a high degree of teamwork, and want to have fun while they make history and collaborate on beautiful products. A successful candidate will have strong technical skills and a history of delivering high-quality code to solve complex business problems. Written and verbal communication in this role are critical: you will author narratives that will be consumed by Amazonians at all levels.

Key Technical Challenges

This role will provide critical support to 2 Advertising-wide cross-cutting charters - Builder Productivity and Service Availability.

• Builder Productivity: The team owns the global Advertising-wide charter to improve organization-wide development velocity. This role will enable Builders across the organization to deliver products and features to our customers faster while ensuring the highest quality, by building AI-powered tools and mechanisms at the enterprise scale, while also functioning as a champion with deep understanding of emerging GenAI innovations and depth of software product delivery lifecycle workflows.
• Service Availability: This role will provide critical support to the Global Ads Availability team that owns the Ads-wide Availability framework and critical service infrastructure that forms the backbone of Ad serving, enabled across multiple regions and Availability Zones. It is critical to ensure that this framework remains highly available. High Availability architecture will help us make sure that the system is configured to handle different loads and different failures with minimal or no downtime.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Engage with key stakeholders such as Product, Program Managers, and Senior Managers to understand customer and business requirements and brainstorm on solutions.
• Drive tech strategy and decision making.
• Apply your technical expertise to solve complex software problems in a fast-paced environment.
• Strategize, design, and launch services for medium-to-large scale projects across all areas of this Spektr Data lake core components, all with the goal of delivering a seamless experience to the customer.
• Provide guidance to and mentor other SDEs in the team.
• Ensure testability, maintainability, and low operational footprint for the team.
• Participate in operational responsibilities with your team and ensure clear and accurate business metrics and operational metrics.

Basic Qualifications

• 6+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 6+ years of programming with at least one software programming language
• 6+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Pay and Benefits

The base salary range for this position is 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually, located in USA, WA, Seattle. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.

Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

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