Software Development Engineer, Creative X
About The Position
Do you want to shape the future of advertising creative technology at Amazon? Are you excited about building intelligent, agentic systems that help advertisers create high-performing ads at scale? Do you thrive in environments where you can think big, invent, and simplify? Creative Experience (CrX) is the organization within Amazon Ads responsible for delivering the best, most optimized creatives to advertisers and shoppers across every Amazon surface. Our team owns the end-to-end system for creative creation, optimization, and storage — from the moment an advertiser sets up a campaign to the instant a shopper sees a personalized ad. We power billions of creative impressions daily across display, video, and audio formats. We are currently investing heavily in two transformative areas: building a state-of-the-art advertiser experience that makes creative setup effortless, and introducing agentic AI experiences that intelligently assist advertisers throughout their creative workflow — from asset generation to performance optimization. The challenges SDEs solve for in CrX are big and influence millions of advertisers, shoppers, and products around the world. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years. If this sounds interesting to you, apply and come chart your own path at Amazon.
Requirements
- 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
Nice To Haves
- 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
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 your 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, taking advantage of 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 — storage, indexing, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low-cost, and easy to manage — in a large distributed computing environment.
- Leverage your 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
- 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)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
