Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon Ads

Amazon • Seattle, WA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join a startup team focused on vertical ad products within Amazon Ads. This role involves leading innovation in a greenfield environment to simplify full funnel advertising solutions at scale, using specialized agentic AI-powered models. The team aims to diversify demand to strategic verticals such as finserv, autos, and locals. The ideal candidate will possess a strong coding background, a proven track record of applying technologies at scale, and a drive to challenge the status quo and improve services and features.

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

• Lead the technical strategy of engineering and science teams in close partnership with a Principal Engineer and Scientists
• Own, build, develop, and lead the technical components of a business-critical initiative to design, develop, launch, and maintain advertising solution(s) and service(s)
• Enable advertisers with simplified AI-powered advertising offerings
• Mentor and grow strong SDE IIs into Senior SDEs

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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree