Software Development Engineer, Ads AI Core Infra

Salary: $143,700 - 194,400 per year Requirements:

• We require 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• We require 2+ years of non-internship experience in system design or architecture, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling for new and existing systems.
• We require experience programming in at least one software programming language.
• We prefer 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• A bachelors degree in computer science or an equivalent background is preferred.

• We design and implement scalable API architectures that serve millions of advertisers and handle thousands of transactions per second.
• We build Model Context Protocol (MCP) server infrastructure to deliver advertiser context with sub-second latency and minimal token usage.
• We establish system design patterns and best practices for global advertising experiences at scale.
• We invent new techniques for global ads experiences, agent orchestration, and context optimization.
• We create feedback loops so our solutions continuously evaluate themselves and improve.

• AI
• API
• AWS
• Lambda
• CloudWatch
• EC2
• ElasticSearch
• Support
• Kafka
• MCP
• Cloud
• AI Agents
• Big Data
• CI/CD

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We are Amazon Advertising, one of Amazons fastest-growing and most profitable businesses, focused on AI-powered solutions that help advertisers make better strategic decisions. Our Campaign Management team builds large-scale, high-velocity distributed systems that support hundreds of millions of API requests each day, stream data at petabyte scale, and power critical advertising services across more than 20 downstream systems. We use a wide range of AWS technologies, including ECS, Fargate, EC2, EMR, Lambda, Kafka, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, CDK, and CloudFormation. We also offer comprehensive benefits, including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, sign-on payments, and RSUs. This role is based in Seattle, WA, with a listed annual base salary range of USD 143,700 to 194,400.

last updated 42 week of 2026