Senior Software Engineer – Scalable Ads Platform

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Ad Exchange (AAX) in New York is shaping the future of programmatic advertising at massive scale. You will design and build distributed ad-serving infrastructure, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver low-latency, high-throughput services that power ads across Amazon properties.

You will own end-to-end system design, code, reviews, and performance optimizations while mentoring peers and driving best practices in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience building scalable distributed systems.
• Ability to mentor teammates and contribute to career growth.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement network and infrastructure systems from the ground up.
• Build, document, and advocate team processes using software development best practices.
• Propose innovative tools, frameworks, automations and processes for adoption across Amazon Ads.
• Write clean, maintainable code and perform peer code reviews.
• Deep-dive into client or server systems to optimize performance, maintainability, scalability.
• Mentor others and help managers guide career growth of team members.
• Operate at AWS-stressing scale with deep knowledge of tech fundamentals.

Skills

CDK

Java

Rust

Python

Distributed systems

Tools

AWS

Job description

Amazon Ad Exchange (AAX) in New York is shaping the future of programmatic advertising at massive scale. You will design and build distributed ad-serving infrastructure, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver low-latency, high-throughput services that power ads across Amazon properties.

You will own end-to-end system design, code, reviews, and performance optimizations while mentoring peers and driving best practices in a fast-paced environment.