AI Advertising Systems Engineer — Greenfield, Scalable

Amazon Inc.; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Sign-on bonus

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking engineers to build AI-powered vertical advertising products from a greenfield startup team, delivering end-to-end services and scalable architectures for strategic verticals including financial services, automotive, and local businesses.

You will work with Principal Engineers and Scientists to translate ambiguous business problems into scalable systems, mentor peers, and ship high-impact features in a fast-moving environment at internet scale.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture 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.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.

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/architecture

SDE experience

Object-oriented design

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking engineers to build AI-powered vertical advertising products from a greenfield startup team, delivering end-to-end services and scalable architectures for strategic verticals including financial services, automotive, and local businesses.

You will work with Principal Engineers and Scientists to translate ambiguous business problems into scalable systems, mentor peers, and ship high-impact features in a fast-moving environment at internet scale.