Software Engineer, ML Orchestration & Ad Tech (MADS)

Amazon; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon in Boulder, CO is seeking an experienced software engineer to design, build, and operate distributed services powering ML model execution and audience activation on AMC. You will own end-to-end delivery across the Custom Models platform and publishing pipeline, translating customer requirements into scalable technical solutions.

You'll collaborate with science, product, and partner teams, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to reliability, observability, and automation across

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems.
• 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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate distributed services (Java, Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, Spark) that orchestrate ML model training, inference, and audience activation.
• Own end-to-end delivery of features across the Custom Models platform and audience/signals publishing pipeline — from API design through deployment and production monitoring.
• Investigate and resolve complex production issues spanning multiple services and AWS dependencies (Step Functions, Clean Rooms, SageMaker, Glue, S3).
• Improve system reliability, observability, and operational tooling for multiple Ads Tier 1 services.
• Collaborate with science, product, and partner teams to translate customer requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Participate in on-call rotation and drive operational excellence through COEs, runbooks, and automated monitoring.

Skills

Software development

System design

OO design

Programming experience

Multi-threaded systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

Java

C++

C#

Perl

DynamoDB

Lambda

Step Functions

SageMaker

Spark

Glue

S3

Job description

Amazon in Boulder, CO is seeking an experienced software engineer to design, build, and operate distributed services powering ML model execution and audience activation on AMC. You will own end-to-end delivery across the Custom Models platform and publishing pipeline, translating customer requirements into scalable technical solutions.

You'll collaborate with science, product, and partner teams, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to reliability, observability, and automation across