Software Development Engineer, Ads AI Core Infra

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 143,700 - 194,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Sign-on bonus

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon in Seattle, WA is seeking a Software Development Engineer for Ads AI Core Infra. You will design, code, and deploy robust microservices powering the central data lake for Advertising, with scale across campaigns, ad-serving, billing, and more.

You will work on Spark, EMR, Athena, and AWS-based systems, focusing on availability, latency, and cost efficiency while collaborating with product managers and engineers to meet customer needs.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non‑internship design or architecture experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Engage with Product & Program Managers to understand requirements and brainstorm solutions.
• Design, code and deploy components and micro‑services for the core job management pipeline.
• Ensure testability, maintainability and low operational footprint for your code.
• Participate in operational responsibilities with your team.
• Innovate on AWS technology to improve latency, reduce cost and operations.

Skills

Software development

System design

Programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Job description

Software Development Engineer, Ads AI Core Infra

Would you like to build highly available, scalable and distributed engineering systems for one of the largest data lakes in Amazon?

The Analytics & Data Management (ADM) team in Ads AI Core Infra owns the central data lake for Advertising unifying Petabytes of data generated across the Ads pipeline such as campaigns, ad‑serving, billing, clicks, impressions and more into a single scalable repository. This is used across the organization to drive hundreds of thousands of complex queries for analysis, measurement and reporting decisions for our customers.

ADM is building the next version of its data lake for 5x growth. An SDE on the ADM team has a unique opportunity to design and innovate solutions for this scale, delivering robust and scalable microservices built over Java and AWS, as well as innovate with big data technologies like Spark, EMR, Athena and more.

Key Responsibilities

• Engage with key decision makers such as Product & Program Managers to understand customer requirements and brainstorm solutions.
• Design, code and deploy components and micro‑services for the core job management pipeline.
• Ensure testability, maintainability and low operational footprint for your code.
• Participate in operational responsibilities with your team.
• Innovate on AWS technology to improve latency, reduce cost and operations.

A Day in the Life

• Focus on core engineering opportunities to guarantee system availability that matches our data growth.
• Work with a skilled team of engineers, managers and decision makers to consistently meet customer demand.
• Automate monitoring of data availability, quality and usability via simplified metrics and drive innovations to improve guarantees for our customers.

Team Overview

The mission of the Analytics & Data Management (ADM) team is to provide data that helps the advertising organization make informed analyses and decisions for our customers and to determine and deploy investments for future growth via a set of central and unified products and services. Our team focuses on simplicity, usability, speed, compliance, cost efficiency and enabling high‑velocity decision making so our customers can generate high quality insights faster.

Basic 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Benefits

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, SEATTLE - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.