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Sr Software Engineer, Amazon Ads Exchange

Amazon
Arlington, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/20/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/18/2026
Description

Come join Amazon Ad Exchange - a high scale, low latency service handling millions of concurrent connections, helping advertisers reach their customers at the right moment with the right message.

Who are we?

We are Amazon Ad eXchange (AAX) responsible for ingesting a massive amount of ad opportunities from across the internet and across the globe in a highly efficient and privacy-centric manner, to drive the highest ROI for our advertiser customers. AAX is a geographically distributed, low latency (<100ms) high volume (millions of transactions per second) system. We work closely with our partner and industry standards groups to understand how we can make advertising more effective for all players (publishers, advertisers, consumers). We seek to leverage industry standards (OpenRTB, VAST, Native, etc) when suitable, and define new standards when appropriate to help the ad tech industry evolve and improve.

Who are you?

You are a strong Senior Software Development Engineer who is passionate about performance and efficiency in a real time system. You have demonstrable experience in diving deep into performance critical systems where every single millisecond of latency matters. You have broad experience in Ad Tech systems and bring you understanding of the Ads ecosystem to hit the road running on day one.

Key job responsibilities

  • Design, Develop, Implement greenfield real time Systems from the ground up
  • Champion team processes using software development best practices
  • Propose innovative tools, frameworks, automations and processes for maintaining the system performance standards
  • 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.

Basic Qualifications

  • 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
  • 5 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

Preferred Qualifications

  • 5 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.

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 Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.


Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A3146713

Salary : $151,300 - $261,500

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