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Software Development Engineer

Amazon.com Inc
  • Seattle, WA
    5 days ago

    Job Description

    The Device Ad Products team is hiring Software Development Engineers to help scale and evolve our ad platform for Amazon-owned devices like Fire Tablets, Alexa Tablets, and Echo Show. We're a lean team with startup energy, backed by Amazon's infrastructure and resources-giving you the freedom to move fast and the support to build at scale.

    What You'll Do

    You'll be part of the core engineering team responsible for the systems that power ad delivery, performance optimization, and reporting across devices. These systems process hundreds of millions of events per day, and your work will directly impact latency, data quality, and platform reliability.

    You'll design, build, and operate services that:

    • Optimize ad delivery in real time using data-driven logic (and increasingly, ML/AI models).
    • Scale backend pipelines to handle high-throughput event ingestion and processing.
    • Provide accurate and low-latency reporting to advertisers.
    • Support experimentation and measurement at scale.

    There are opportunities to work on systems for real-time bidding, targeting, and ad ranking-especially as we explore smarter optimizations for ad placement on-device.

    Why This Role

    • Tangible Impact: Your work affects ad experience and monetization across Amazon devices.
    • Scalable Challenges: Work on high-volume systems where performance and reliability are critical.
    • Tech Stack Variety: Exposure to AWS services, stream processing frameworks, and multiple programming languages (Java, Kotlin, Python, etc.).
    • AI Opportunity: Help shape how we apply machine learning and AI to improve targeting, delivery, and measurement.

    This isn't a team that throws work over the wall. You'll be involved from design to deployment-and have a voice in what we build next. If you're pragmatic, data-driven, and energized by complex distributed systems-and you"re curious about how AI can be embedded into production software-we'd love to talk.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSeattle, WA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
    Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

    Skills

    • Advertisingunmatched
    • Amazon Alexaunmatched
    • Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Data Qualityunmatched
    • Distributed Computingunmatched
    • Embedded Softwareunmatched
    • High Throughputunmatched
    • Javaunmatched
    • Kotlinunmatched
    • Machine Learningunmatched
    • Performance Analysisunmatched
    • Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
    • Programming Languagesunmatched
    • Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
    • Software Developmentunmatched
    • Software Engineeringunmatched
    • Startupunmatched
    • Technical Recruitingunmatched

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