Software Dev Engineer II , Live Events Advertising

Join Amazon Advertising in Live Events as an AI Engineer and help shape the future of advertising technology across premium live sports and entertainment. Youll design and build intelligent systems that power ad delivery for millions of concurrent viewers across Thursday Night Football NBA NASCAR and dozens of global properties where every moment matters and reliability is paramount.



Key job responsibilities
Own end-to-end feature delivery across the live events advertising stack from requirements through design implementation testing deployment and operational support

Author and drive technical designs for new capabilities leading design reviews and incorporating feedback from senior engineers and cross-functional partner teams

Build AI-powered automation systems including agentic workflows prompt-engineered development pipelines and intelligent operational tooling that reduce manual effort across our event portfolio

Design and implement integrations with partner teams across the advertising ecosystem including Publisher Ad Server Prime Video and ad serving platforms

Lead event readiness and operational excellence by owning on-call responsibilities building monitoring and alerting systems authoring runbooks and driving root cause analysis for production issues

A day in the life
In this role youll focus on building AI-powered infrastructure that transforms how we deliver advertising across live events. You might start your day collaborating with partner teams to design a new feature for real-time ad optimization then spend time architecting an agentic workflow that automates operational tasks across our 200 annual events. Youll use AI pair-programming tools to accelerate development participate in design reviews where youll share technical perspectives with senior engineers and work through complex problems that span broadcast systems distributed infrastructure and intelligent automation. Later you might lead a root cause analysis on a production issue or mentor a junior engineer through a challenging technical decision. Throughout it all youre operating at broadcast-grade reliability where milliseconds and uptime directly impact the experience for millions of viewers.

About the team
We are an AI-first engineering organization building the advertising technology that powers Amazons rapidly expanding live events portfolio. Our team operates at the intersection of broadcast media and digital advertising supporting 50 live event types across multiple sports geographies and languages. Were committed to reducing manual processes through intelligent automation and agentic systemsour engineers use AI pair-programming tools daily and have achieved significant operational efficiencies through thoughtful automation. Were expanding rapidly into new regions and sports and were looking for collaborative engineers who are excited about solving complex problems at scale while maintaining the reliability that broadcast audiences expect. When you join us youll work alongside engineers who are passionate about both technical excellence and supporting each others growth.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Bachelors degree or equivalent
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle including coding standards software architectures code reviews source control management continuous deployments testing and operational excellence
- Knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals including transformer architecture training/inference lifecycles and optimization techniques

- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience Experience in online advertising or high-tech products/services
- Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in a collaborative AI-augmented engineering environment

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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 and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at NY New York - 158100.00 - 213800.00 USD annually