Sr Software Engineer, Amazon Ads DSP

Come join Amazon Ad Exchange - a high scale low latency service that is critical the entire Ad eco-system. Our business is growing super fast and so is our team!

Do you want to solve business challenges through innovative technology Do you enjoy working on massively scalable technology in a fast-paced team environment Do you love working on industry defining projects that move the needle

Amazon challenges are big and impact millions of customers sellers and countless products across the globe. Our path is not always easy so we are selective about who joins us on this journey. There is a certain kind of person who takes on software development challenges at Amazon someone excited by the idea creating new platforms features and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company whose ship cycles are measured in weeks not years. If this is you come build the future with us.

Amazon Ad eXchange (AAX) aims to match ad opportunities (supply) from various Amazon Owned & Operated properties and external publishers with ad campaigns/lines (demand) and external demand sources in an efficient scalable and privacy-centric manner while balancing the needs of advertisers publishers and consumers. We ensure high ROI for our advertisers high yield for our publishers and high-quality ad experiences for our consumers.

AAX is a high scale (3 MM QPS) low latency service that is critical the entire Ad eco-system. The Amazon Advertising business is growing super fast and so is our team and our data. The service and solutions we produce is used by dozens of internal business teams as well as Amazon customers : Publishers Broadcasters Advertisers. We are still in that growth stage when every engineer on the team has a chance to design and own an end-to-end system solution or large service.


Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary engineering talent to design and develop state of the art Ads systems and infrastructure.

Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.

Develop custom infrastructure solutions which can operate at incredible scale and speed and future proof as we get bigger and faster.

Build distributed systems that are scalable fault-tolerant low cost and easy to manage/use.


Key job responsibilities
- Design Develop Implement Network & Infrastructure Systems from the ground up
- Build document and advocate team processes using software development best practices
- Propose innovative tools frameworks automations and processes for adoption across Amazon Ads
- Write clean maintainable code and perform peer code-reviews. Drive improvements to the code review process. (CDK Java Rust Python)
- Deep-dive into client or server systems to optimize for performance maintainability scalability extensibility as needed.
- Assist in the career development of others by actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
- Utilize deep knowledge of tech fundamentals to build things that can operate at AWS-stressing scale.


- 6 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 6 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 6 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

- 6 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

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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 - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually