Ever wonder what happens in the milliseconds between a customer scrolling and seeing a relevant ad? The Sponsored Products Marketplace AdClicks team builds the infrastructure behind that moment — processing trillions of ads daily at a scale few teams in the industry ever touch.
We're looking for a Software Development Engineer to help design, develop, and own large-scale, highly available services that centrally process advertising signals (ad impressions, views, clicks, video unmutes, and more) across Amazon's performance advertising businesses — including Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, Sponsored Brands Video, and Sponsored Display.
Our systems join millions of ad events per second from diverse sources, orchestrate business-specific enrichments (robotic traffic detection, validation of chargeable events, geotagging, event cardinality), and vend ad event data to power real-time campaign optimizations, attribution, reporting, analytics, and billing. You'll build services handling billions of requests per day while maintaining millisecond-level latencies and meeting strict SLA requirements — all operating on one of the world's largest product catalogs and massive distributed datasets.
A successful candidate will see their work live on Amazon.com and across numerous partner websites, viewed by tens of millions of customers, driving quantifiable revenue impact.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, develop, and own Tier-1 services that determine ad-serving eligibility across Performance Advertising Core Engine
- Set the technical vision for services spanning multiple Sponsored Ad programs (Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, Sponsored Display)
- Build global, auto-scalable, high-throughput services that work across all ad programs — from campaign management through event logging
- Collaborate with software engineers, Product Managers, and Program Managers to deliver compelling advertiser and customer experiences
- Advise senior leadership on technical opportunities and risks to ensure sustained, rapid feature delivery
- Lead and inspire teammates to raise the bar on software quality, reliability, and operational excellence
- Measure success through quality of execution, pace of innovation, and increased customer and advertiser satisfaction
About the team The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is reimagining the advertising landscape through industry-leading generative AI technologies — revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across Amazon.com and beyond.
We are at the forefront of reinventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle: from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights. We're a passionate group of innovators developing responsible, intelligent AI technologies that balance advertiser needs, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace.
If you're energized by solving complex challenges at massive scale and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising.
Basic 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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Preferred Qualifications
- 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
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, NY, New York - 158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually