AI Advertising Platform Engineer

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Amazon Advertising is seeking a Software Development Engineer to design and build AI-powered advertising solutions at scale in Seattle. You will translate ambiguous problems into scalable services and collaborate with engineers, scientists, and product teams.

You have a strong coding foundation and experience delivering at scale, with a track record of building distributed systems and end-to-end platforms. The role offers an opportunity to influence verticals like financial services, automotive,

Qualifications

• 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 designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, launch, and maintain AI-powered advertising solutions that simplify the advertiser experience across strategic verticals
• Design and build end-to-end services and platforms from the ground up, contributing to foundational technical decisions that shape the product
• Partner with Principal Engineers and Scientists to translate ambiguous business problems into scalable system architectures
• Collaborate cross-functionally across engineering, science, and product teams to deliver integrated solutions that balance advertiser needs with customer experience
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies — including agentic AI models — to accelerate product development and unlock new advertising capabilities
• Mentor peers, contribute to engineering best practices, and raise the technical bar as the team scales
• Deliver iterative, high-impact results in a fast-paced startup environment

Skills

Software development

System design

OO design

Multiple languages

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Advertising is seeking a Software Development Engineer to design and build AI-powered advertising solutions at scale in Seattle. You will translate ambiguous problems into scalable services and collaborate with engineers, scientists, and product teams.

You have a strong coding foundation and experience delivering at scale, with a track record of building distributed systems and end-to-end platforms. The role offers an opportunity to influence verticals like financial services, automotive,