Senior Software Development Engineer, Ads-Full-Funnel Agentic Intelligence

Amazon • Denver, CO

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About The Position

Amazon Advertising is looking for a Software Development Engineer to design and
build agentic AI orchestration systems that enable AI agents to autonomously
manage advertising campaigns. You will work on the Ads Agent Orchestration
platform — building agent runtimes, tool/skill frameworks, evaluation pipelines,
and integrations with Amazon's advertising APIs. This role offers the
opportunity to work at the forefront of generative AI applied to one of Amazon's
largest and fastest-growing businesses.

You will join the Ads Agent Orchestration team within Amazon Advertising's Full
Funnel Agentic Intelligence organization. Our team builds the platform that
powers AI agents capable of understanding advertiser goals and autonomously
executing advertising strategies across Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands,
Sponsored Display, and DSP. We work with technologies including large language
models, multi-agent orchestration frameworks, and the Model Context Protocol
(MCP) standard. The team is based in Seattle (SEA40) and operates in a
fast-paced, high-ownership environment where engineers ship production AI
systems that serve millions of advertisers.

Requirements

• 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
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical degree or related experience
• Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices across the development life cycle, including agile methodologies, coding standards, code reviews, source management, build processes, testing, and operations

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AWS Services including EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, SQS
• Experience with technical tracking systems / softwares (like ATS)
• Experience in an online advertising role and have familiarity with advertising products and ad serving technologies
• Master's degree or above in computer science or equivalent
• Experience with AI/ML technologies

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core components of the Ads Agent Orchestration platform including agent runtime, MCP server integrations, and skill/tool frameworks
• Build and maintain production services handling real-time agent interactions with advertising APIs (campaign management, bidding, reporting)
• Develop evaluation and observability infrastructure for agentic systems (OTEL tracing, CloudWatch integration, automated eval harnesses)
• Drive technical design for new features end-to-end: write design docs, lead reviews, implement, test, and deploy
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design guidance, and pair programming
• Contribute to operational excellence: on-call rotations, runbook development, and incident response
• Collaborate with Applied Scientists and partner teams to integrate ML models and agent capabilities into production systems

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level