Software Development Engineer, Amazon Advertising

This is a ground-up, greenfield build — no known answer, no pattern to follow. If you're energized by ambiguity and building from zero to one, keep reading.

What We're Building

• Simplified full-funnel advertising solutions powered by specialized agentic AI models
• Diversified demand across strategic verticals — finserv, autos, locals, and more
• New state-of-the-art products operating at internet scale

This is a startup team within Amazon Ads with an ambitious vision and the runway to innovate.

Responsibilities

• Own it end-to-end — design, develop, launch, and maintain AI-powered advertising solutions and services
• Build the tools — evolve the frameworks, services, and infrastructure that power this new vertical
• Move fast — deliver results with bias for action on a business-critical initiative
• Simplify complexity — enable advertisers with streamlined, AI-powered offerings that just work

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
• 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

Pay

USA, NY, New York - $158,100.00 - $213,800.00 USD annually

Benefits

• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
• 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.