AI-Powered Backend Engineer for Scalable Advertising APIs

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Advertising is leading the industry with scalable APIs powering millions of advertiser transactions, and an MCP server infrastructure delivering low-latency context for AI agents. You will contribute to architectures that scale globally and define best practices for ads experiences at scale.

The role requires designing reliable systems, strong coding standards, and collaboration across teams to deliver high-impact advertising technology at scale.

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.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable architectures for APIs serving millions of advertisers at thousands of transactions per second.
• Build Model Context Protocol (MCP) server infrastructure—an emerging standard for AI agent-data interaction that delivers advertiser context with sub-second latency and minimal token consumption.
• Establish system design patterns and best practices for global ads experience at scale.

Skills

Software development

System design

Programming experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Amazon Advertising is leading the industry with scalable APIs powering millions of advertiser transactions, and an MCP server infrastructure delivering low-latency context for AI agents. You will contribute to architectures that scale globally and define best practices for ads experiences at scale.

The role requires designing reliable systems, strong coding standards, and collaboration across teams to deliver high-impact advertising technology at scale.