Software Development Engineer, Ads Campaign Management

Description

Alexa is one of Amazon's fastest-growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering AI-powered solutions that transform how advertisers make strategic decisions. We deliver billions of ad impressions and process massive volumes of advertiser data every single day. You'll work with us to pioneer breakthrough approaches in how AI agents access and reason over real-time advertiser data at scale.

About the role

The Campaign Management team is responsible for capturing inputs for advertisers to control their advertising efforts. You can think of our team as the brain and nervous system of all the advertisements you see on amazon.com. We build large scale, high velocity distributed systems to service 100’s of millions of API requests per day, stream data at PB scale, process business logic on tight latency budgets, all while streaming and the data at high fidelity to 20+ other services to perform other critical advertising functions.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable architectures for APIs serving millions of advertisers at thousands of transactions per second
• Build Model Context Protocol (MCP) server infrastructure—an emerging standard for AI agent-data interaction—that delivers advertiser context with sub-second latency and minimal token consumption
• Establish system design patterns and best practices for global ads experience at scale
• Create feedback loops to ensure our solutions are constantly evaluating themselves and improving

Requirements

• 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 software development experience using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ 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

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.