Software Development Engineer, Creative Advertiser Experience, CreativeX

Amazon.com; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is hiring a Software Development Engineer for the Creative Advertiser Experience team (CreativeX) in Santa Monica. You will design and implement software solutions across the ad creative lifecycle, from authoring to activation, while mentoring peers and driving scalable, secure systems.

You will own major parts of the software lifecycle, write clear docs, and collaborate with customers to deliver impactful features, including opportunities to leverage generative AI tools

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of design or architecture experience for scalable systems.
• 3+ years designing and developing large-scale distributed software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement software solutions enabling new features with scalable, secure systems.
• Own the full development lifecycle for major software components, including testing and deployment.
• Write clear documentation and mentor teammates on producing high-quality code.
• Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to deliver solutions that meet real needs, exploring AI opportunities.
• Participate in code reviews and help raise engineering quality across the team.

Skills

Software development

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Tools

C#

C++

Java

Perl

Job description

Software Development Engineer, Creative Advertiser Experience, CreativeX

Job ID: 10571985 | Amazon.com Services LLC

About us: We own both sides of the ad creative experience for Amazon DSP, the advertiser experience (AX) where advertisers build and manage creatives across display, video, and streaming TV, and the customer experience (CX) where those creatives render and deliver personalized content to hundreds of millions of shoppers at impression time. We operate the full creative lifecycle from authoring through real-time serving, and are actively deploying agentic AI systems that autonomously generate, validate, and activate creatives across both surfaces.

Key job responsibilities

• Design and implement software solutions that enable new features and improve existing systems, applying sound judgment when making tradeoffs between scalability, maintainability, performance, and security.
• Own the full development lifecycle for major portions of your team's software, including scoping, coding, testing, deployment, and operational support, ensuring root causes of issues are identified and permanently resolved.
• Write clear documentation covering what your software does, how it is constructed and operated, and how it fits into the broader architecture, actively training new team members on these systems.
• Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, and peers to understand business and customer value, ensuring solutions address real needs while evaluating opportunities to leverage generative artificial intelligence tools where appropriate.
• Participate actively in code reviews, providing meaningful feedback to engineers across experience levels, and mentor teammates on producing high‑quality, maintainable code.

About the team The team owns the creative authoring and activation platform that powers how advertisers create and deploy ad creatives across video, and streaming TV. The team operates the central orchestration framework, advertiser-facing UIs, bulk upload services scale across WW. The team is at an inflection point, expanding from infrastructure into full advertiser experience ownership, consolidating a fragmented template landscape into reusable primitives, taking on end‑to‑end video creative tooling for OLV and STV formats, and building a new brand asset management platform that lets advertisers provide brand assets once and activate them across all campaigns.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 3+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews,