Software Dev Engineer, Publisher Ad Server

About the role

Amazon Ads - Publisher Technology (PubTech) is building supply side technology and pioneering novel experiences for content publishers including audio (Alexa), video (Prime Video, Twitch, Freevee, FireTV), and display (Amazon.com) to aid in selling inventory, optimize yield, and maximize monetization. The Publisher Ad Server engineering team within PubTech is developing highly scalable ad serving mechanisms with necessary features to serve ads. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer who can build on our early success, pioneer new programs for customers, and help define our future.

Responsibilities

• Spend time as a hands-on engineer directly impacting ad delivery, customer experience and revenue
• Play a key role in building software products and features from the ground up to experiment and enable different ad strategies
• Use a wide range of technologies, programming languages and systems
• Own all aspects of software development
• Have freedom and encouragement to explore your own ideas and see your contributions benefit tens of millions of customers

About the team

Publisher Ad Server - Infrastructure and Developer Experience team is responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and scalability of the Publisher Ad Server ecosystem. We own the end-to-end management of Ad Server infra, experimentation and developer experience while maintaining optimal service performance metrics including throughput and latency.

The team manages critical infrastructure components across AWS services (EC2, ECS, ALB/NLB, ASGs) and monitors key operational metrics including CPU utilization, memory consumption, and cache efficiency. We ensure seamless scaling for high-traffic events and live games while maintaining robust connectivity with dependent Ads services.

Our scope includes infrastructure optimization & scaling, building core experimentation capability, proactive capacity planning, and onboarding new publishers. Through comprehensive monitoring, automated scaling solutions, and streamlined deployment processes, we enable consistent service performance and operational excellence across the Ad Server ecosystem.

The team serves as the cornerstone for maintaining infrastructure health and scaling readiness, particularly during high-stakes live events, Prime Day, Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Basic qualifications

• 1+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

USA, WA, SEATTLE - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually