Sr. Software Development Engineer, Advengers - Amazon Ads Brand & Video

About the role

This is your chance to help build a billion-dollar business, innovate on AI-powered advertiser workflows, and positively impact millions of ad experiences—all while working with industry-leading technologies. You will own the design and delivery of an AI-first campaign creation system powered by Performance+ and Brand+ tactics for omni-channel ad buying across video, audio, and display. You will work on a mix of established and greenfield projects—updating our architecture to scale 10X for the future while advancing our AI Performance+ and Brand+ Tactics to solve more interesting problems for customers globally. You will also work on creative backend services to support AI-first omni-channel campaigns across video, audio, and display.

You'll own features end-to-end—working directly with customers to scope requirements, design solutions, implement, test, and launch. Our systems serve advertisers at Amazon scale, and you'll be responsible for building and maintaining both the React/TypeScript frontend and Java backend services that power them.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, UX, data science, and partner teams
• Demonstrate operational excellence in all of your work
• Provide active operational support for your team, ensuring root causes of operational issues are identified and resolved
• Identify and execute on opportunities to improve your team’s operations
• Participate actively in the code review process, providing meaningful feedback to others, including those who are more senior

About the team

We are focused on goal-oriented, AI-powered workflows that help advertisers achieve their marketing objectives. We collect campaign goals, surface relevant data at key decision points, and provide reporting that validates decision-making. Our product suite guides traders in building campaigns with optimal targeting, creative formats, inventory, and bid models that are highly likely to hit their goals—reducing the need for manual intervention.

Requirements

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language
• 5+ 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

• 5+ 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

USA, NY, New York - $184,900.00 - $250,200.00 USD annually

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and mental health support
• Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off and parental leave
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)