Real-Time Ad Systems Engineer

Amazon; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Advertising is seeking a Software Development Engineer to own real-time event processing systems at scale. You will design, implement, test, and deploy components across the ad stack, ensuring low latency and high throughput.

You will participate in on-call rotations, contribute to architecture decisions, and mentor teammates while delivering robust software with strong test coverage.

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, distributed software applications using languages like C++, Java.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in CS/Engineering/Math or related field.
• Experience programming with at least one programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features for real-time event processing systems handling billions of events per day.
• Own end-to-end delivery of software components: requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support.
• Build and maintain distributed systems that process advertising signals with low latency at high throughput.
• Participate in on-call rotations and operational excellence initiatives to maintain 100% availability.
• Contribute to architecture decisions for event pipelines, caching layers, and data transformation services.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code with thorough unit and integration test coverage.
• Collaborate with partner teams across the ad serving stack (bid request, creative rendering, reporting, billing).
• Mentor teammates and participate in code/design reviews.

Skills

C++

Java

OO design

Design patterns

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Job description

Amazon Advertising is seeking a Software Development Engineer to own real-time event processing systems at scale. You will design, implement, test, and deploy components across the ad stack, ensuring low latency and high throughput.

You will participate in on-call rotations, contribute to architecture decisions, and mentor teammates while delivering robust software with strong test coverage.