Software Development Engineer, Creative Advertiser Experience, CreativeX

About us:
We own both sides of the ad creative experience for Amazon DSP the advertiser experience (AX) where advertisers build and manage creatives across display video and streaming TV and the customer experience (CX) where those creatives render and deliver personalized content to hundreds of millions of shoppers at impression time. We operate the full creative lifecycle from authoring through real-time serving and are actively deploying agentic AI systems that autonomously generate validate and activate creatives across both surfaces.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and implement software solutions that enable new features and improve existing systems applying sound judgment when making tradeoffs between scalability maintainability performance and security.
- Own the full development lifecycle for major portions of your teams software including scoping coding testing deployment and operational support ensuring root causes of issues are identified and permanently resolved.
- Write clear documentation covering what your software does how it is constructed and operated and how it fits into the broader architecture actively training new team members on these systems.
- Collaborate with customers stakeholders and peers to understand business and customer value ensuring solutions address real needs while evaluating opportunities to leverage generative artificial intelligence tools where appropriate.
- Participate actively in code reviews providing meaningful feedback to engineers across experience levels and mentor teammates on producing high-quality maintainable code.

About the team
The team owns the creative authoring and activation platform that powers how advertisers create and deploy ad creatives across video and streaming TV. The team operates the central orchestration framework advertiser-facing UIs bulk upload services scale across WW. The team is at an inflection point expanding from infrastructure into full advertiser experience ownership consolidating a fragmented template landscape into reusable primitives taking on end-to-end video creative tooling for OLV and STV formats and building a new brand asset management platform that lets advertisers provide brand assets once and activate them across all campaigns.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 3 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 CA Santa Monica - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually