Software Development Engineer, Advertiser Growth Engine
We are the Advertiser Growth Engine (AGE) team at Amazon Advertising. We own and build services and applications that make advertising across countries as easy as flipping on a switch. Our mission is to accelerate the path for millions of our Advertising clients in becoming global advertisers and brands.
About the role
We are currently recruiting Mid-Level Software Engineers who enjoy solving technical challenges at a global scale, simplifying and eliminating complexity, and demonstrating a high sense of ownership and the ability to drive solutions from inception to delivery. You will join a high-performing team at the core of the Amazon Ads ecosystem and be responsible for the entire development lifecycle, from feature ideation to deployment to operational excellence.
Over the past two years, we have successfully built world-class text, video, and image localization services leveraging experienced human linguists and machine translation to produce high-quality advertising content. We’ve also used ML and NLP to build a highly scalable service that intelligently routes translation content to human linguists by quality and SLA metrics.
Our current and future goals include building agentic video, text, and image localization workflows to improve our customers' experience both on and off Ad Console, and building services to enable multi-marketplace advertisers to create their campaigns globally, reducing advertiser friction.
Responsibilities
- Lead medium to high-complexity projects through the full product lifecycle, from strategy and prioritization to development, adoption, and iteration.
- Design and build high-availability, low-latency distributed systems that service millions of users.
- Collaborate with scientists to solve localization problems for our advertisers.
- Mentor junior engineers to ensure projects are delivered with high quality.
- Foster a culture of innovation and high standards within the team.
Requirements
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems.
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
Base salary range: $158,100 – $213,800 USD annually (New York, NY). Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and location.
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D, with optional supplemental life plans).
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and mental health support.
- Medical Advice Line and Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching.
- Paid time off and parental leave.
Learn more about our benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.