Software Development Engineer

Amazon Advertising is building a new vertical ads platform from the ground up — purpose-built to simplify full-funnel advertising for strategic verticals like financial services, autos, and local businesses. You'll design and deliver AI-powered advertising solutions that use specialized agentic models to diversify demand across these verticals, working on a greenfield problem without established patterns to follow.

This is a startup-style team with an ambitious vision: make it dramatically easier for advertisers in underserved verticals to launch effective full-funnel campaigns at scale. You'll work closely with a Principal Engineer and scientists to build the tools, services, and frameworks that power these new offerings — from backend infrastructure to the agentic AI systems that simplify campaign creation and optimization.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and develop AI-powered advertising tools and services that simplify full-funnel campaign creation for vertical advertisers (financial services, autos, local businesses)
- Deliver features end to end — from system design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production operations — in a fast-moving greenfield environment
- Build and evolve the agentic AI frameworks that power simplified advertising offerings, collaborating closely with scientists on model integration and serving
- Collaborate with a Principal Engineer to make foundational technical decisions on architecture, tooling, and service design for a new platform being built from scratch
- Develop scalable infrastructure to support diverse demand across multiple strategic verticals, each with distinct advertiser needs and campaign patterns
- Participate in design discussions and code reviews, contributing to engineering quality in a team that's establishing its technical foundations
- Mentor peers and contribute to a strong engineering culture as the team grows

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

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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