Sr. Software Development Engineer, Geographic Targeting

About the role

The Geo Targeting team at Amazon Ads builds the systems that determine where billions of ad impressions land geographically every day. You will own the architecture that scores location signals in real time, turns those scores into bid-time features, and connects advertiser targeting to the physical world.

Responsibilities

• Design and build real-time location signal processing systems that ingest, score, and resolve multiple geo data sources at bid-time latency
• Arcitect data pipelines that connect large-scale address and device signals to impression-level location inference
• Own the integration between location intelligence systems and the bid optimization stack
• Solve for international coverage gaps where existing location inference methods are unreliable
• Drive operational excellence across geo infrastructure, including latency, accuracy measurement, and cost efficiency
• Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and influence technical direction across adjacent teams in bidding, targeting, and measurement

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team