Senior Software Development Engineer, Creative X

Amazon • New York, NY

1d • $184,900 - $250,200 • Onsite

About The Position

This role is for a Senior Software Development Engineer within the Creative X (CrX) organization at Amazon Ads. The position focuses on shaping the future of advertising creative technology by building intelligent, agentic systems that help advertisers create high-performing ads at scale. CrX is responsible for the end-to-end system for creative creation, optimization, and storage, powering billions of creative impressions daily across various formats. The team is investing heavily in building a state-of-the-art advertiser experience and introducing AI-driven experiences to assist advertisers throughout their workflow. The challenges are significant, influencing millions of advertisers, shoppers, and products globally. The role requires individuals passionate about creating new products and services from scratch, managing ambiguity, and working in a fast-paced environment with short development cycles.

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

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Design and build full-stack solutions, from front-end advertiser experiences to back-end distributed systems, that power creative workflows at Amazon's scale.
• Deliver novel customer experiences by developing solutions that make creative setup intuitive, intelligent, and delightful for advertisers and agencies.
• Use problem-solving skills to tackle complex, ambiguous challenges, thinking big, inventing, and simplifying to find elegant solutions.
• Collaborate with creative and technical teams across Amazon Ads to integrate and optimize existing ad products, leveraging Amazon's scale and reach.
• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• Build distributed systems, including storage, indexing, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low-cost, and easy to manage in a large distributed computing environment.
• Leverage technical ability, organizational skills, and communication skills to solve challenging problems and achieve results in a fast-paced environment.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to other SDEs on the team, raising the bar for the entire engineering organization.
• Maintain a high quality bar, ensuring quality design reviews, robust engineering practices, automated testing, and strong code coverage across all deliverables.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software with rapid iteration cycles.

Benefits

• Sign-on payments
• Restricted stock units (RSUs)
• 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: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree