Software Development Engineer, Advertising Services

AI in this role

Build self-service and AI-based assistant applications powering the support ecosystem for Amazon Ads.

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Build the applications that power Amazon Ads' support ecosystem — from self-service educational content and AI-based assistants to human-powered support and post-interaction tools — directly unblocking advertisers in their moment of need and ensuring customer delight across every support path. Your work will make advertisers confident and competent with Amazon Ads, regardless of their prior experience.

The Ad Services team builds support experiences that are contextually relevant, easy to discover, efficient, accurate, and predictive of users' needs. We believe best-in-class support should be integrated into the advertiser's workflow, context-aware, and carefully balanced between self-service options and personalized assistance. You'll join a product-focused two-pizza team working side-by-side with product owners — contributing ideas that become your projects. You'll build across Help Me Here, Help products, an AI-based assistant, Contact Us, Case Log, and How'd My Driving (HMD) surveys, empowering both advertisers and associates to succeed across every support path.

Key job responsibilities
- Design, develop, and test features for self-service options and personalized AI assistance
- Write clean, well-tested Java code and ship it through Amazon's CI/CD pipelines with confidence
- Build and maintain APIs, Lambda functions, and event-driven workflows using DynamoDB, SQS, Step Functions, and ECS
- Debug and resolve production issues — own your code from laptop to production
- Participate in code reviews, giving and receiving feedback that raises the quality bar for the team
- Contribute to operational excellence — write runbooks, monitor dashboards, and participate in on-call rotations
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into working software
- Learn and apply Amazon's internal frameworks and tools (Coral, Brazil, Apollo, Pipelines) to deliver at scale

Basic qualifications

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1+ 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
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred qualifications

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's 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.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, SEATTLE - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Software Development Engineer, Advertising Services at Amazon rates 60 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Open the description and count.

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