Software Engineer – Brand Marketing Tech (Scale & AI)

Amazon; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer for its XCM Brand Marketing Tech to build advanced technology solutions that transform how Amazon reaches and engages customers at scale. You will influence core features with exposure to senior leaders, tackling big data, AI/ML, and distributed systems.

You will own features end-to-end and collaborate with PMT, Science, and business stakeholders. The role emphasizes hands-on technical excellence, trust-building, and scalable system design, with

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
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ 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
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Responsibilities

• Own software features end-to-end, from requirements clarification through design, implementation, deployment, and operation
• Write clear, well-structured design documents and participate actively in design reviews, both as author and reviewer
• Deliver high-quality production code that meets team standards, requires minimal re-review, and is built to be maintainable
• Partner with PMT, Science, and business stakeholders to clarify ambiguous requirements and translate business goals into technical scope
• Identify and mitigate immediate risks in your work; proactively raise concerns about cross-team dependencies, edge cases, and operational gaps
• Contribute to team operational excellence: integration tests on every change, monitoring and alerting for the systems you own, runbooks for the on‑call rotation, and Sev‑2 reduction
• Participate in the on‑call rotation for services your team owns, including weekend and after‑hours response when required
• Mentor SDE‑I engineers and new hires; provide constructive code review feedback that develops your peers
• Continuously simplify code and resolve component‑level architectural deficiencies as you encounter them
• Stay current with the team's tech stack and contribute to technology decisions within your scope

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems

C++

C#

Java

Perl

OO design

Education

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

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer for its XCM Brand Marketing Tech to build advanced technology solutions that transform how Amazon reaches and engages customers at scale. You will influence core features with exposure to senior leaders, tackling big data, AI/ML, and distributed systems.

You will own features end-to-end and collaborate with PMT, Science, and business stakeholders. The role emphasizes hands-on technical excellence, trust-building, and scalable system design, with