Software Development Engineer, Advertiser Growth Engine

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's Advertiser Growth Engine (AGE) team builds services across Amazon Advertising that simplify going global for advertisers. This mid-level software engineer role focuses on designing high-availability, low-latency distributed systems and guiding projects from ideation to delivery.

You will mentor junior engineers, collaborate with data scientists, and contribute to localization workflows spanning text, video, and images to reach millions of advertisers worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Lead medium to high complexity projects. Collaborate with scientists to solve localization problems for advertisers and mentor junior engineers to ensure projects are delivered with high quality.

Job description

Description

The Advertiser Growth Engine (AGE) team owns and builds services and applications across Amazon Advertising that make advertising across countries as easy as flipping on a switch. Our mission is to accelerate the path for millions of our Advertising clients in becoming global advertisers and brands.

We are currently recruiting Mid-Level Software Engineers who enjoy solving technical challenges at a global scale, simplifying and eliminating complexity as well as demonstrating a high sense of ownership and the ability to drive solutions from inception to delivery.

We have a strong culture of innovation, solving problems in creative ways and our track record of accomplishment’s speaks for itself. Over the past 2 years we have successfully:

• Built world-class text, video, and image localization services leveraging experienced human linguists and machine translation to produce high quality Advertising content.
• Leveraged ML and NLP to build a highly scalable service which intelligently routes translation content to human linguist by quality and SLA metrics.

Our current and future goals include:

• Building agentic video, text, and image localization workflows to improve our customer's experience both on and off Ad Console.
• Building services to enable multi-marketplace advertisers to create their campaigns globally. This will help reduce advertiser friction.

You will be joining a high-performing team at the core of the Amazon Ad’s ecosystem. You will be responsible for the entire development lifecycle, from feature ideation to deployment to operational excellence. The individual in this role will have responsibility through the full product life cycle, from product strategy, prioritization and development to adoption and iteration. We will be counting on you to have strong technical skills - you should be able to design and build high-availability, low-latency distributed systems that will service millions of users. You will be expected to mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of innovation and high standards in the team.

Key job responsibilities

This engineer will be responsible for leading medium to high complexity projects. The Engineer will be expected to collaborate with scientists to solve localization problems for our advertisers and mentor junior engineers to ensure projects are delivered with high quality.