Sr Software Development Engineer, Advertising Services

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Advertising LLC is seeking an experienced engineering leader to own the architectural direction for large-scale Ad Services products, spanning web apps, platform services, and AI agents. You will drive cross-functional collaboration and define scalable production architectures for autonomous agents and intelligent assistants.

Responsibilities include translating business needs into technical specs, ensuring operational excellence, and mentoring engineers while raising the team’s technical

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming in at least one language
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture for systems
• Experience as a mentor or tech lead

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design and implementation of complex Ad Services products
• Lead cross-functional collaboration on Ads support functionality
• Drive technical strategy for autonomous agents and AI assistants
• Translate business requirements into detailed technical specs
• Own operational excellence and engineering best practices
• Coach engineers and lead design reviews

Skills

Senior architecture

Technical leadership

Mentorship

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Job description

Transform how Amazon's advertising services organization operates at scale — building autonomous agents, intelligent assistants, and AI-powered platforms that automate service delivery for millions of advertisers, from first-time sellers to global agencies. You'll own the architectural direction for systems that span self-service support experiences to managed campaign operations, pioneering how AI changes the way advertisers get help and how operational issues get detected and resolved.

Key job responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design and implementation of complex products for Ad Services — including web applications, platform services, and AI agents — setting the architectural direction that shapes these systems long-term
• Lead cross-functional collaboration across Amazon's advertising systems on the design and development of core Ads support functionality, influencing technical direction beyond your own team
• Drive the technical strategy for autonomous agent and intelligent assistant capabilities, translating business and scientific requirements into scalable production architectures
• Work with business teams and project managers to convert functional requirements into detailed technical specifications, bringing context for current and future technology choices
• Own operational excellence for your products — driving feature stability, performance, and flexibility while establishing engineering best practices across the team
• Coach and mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and raise the technical bar for the team and adjacent teams

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ 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

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Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

USA, WA, SEATTLE - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

Company

Amazon Advertising LLC

Job ID: A10558336