Software Dev Engineer III, Advertising Creative X

Software Dev Engineer III, Amazon Advertising Creative X

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest-growing and most profitable businesses. We operate at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, creating innovative products that help customers discover what they want to buy. Our advertising solutions help brands reach millions of customers on Amazon's own sites and apps, as well as on millions of TV, tablet, and mobile devices and other high-quality websites.

• Architect and own the technical strategy for critical features and services, making high-impact decisions that influence multiple teams.
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, complex distributed systems that handle millions of requests.
• Mentor junior engineers and champion engineering best practices, including code quality, testing automation, and operational excellence.
• Drive end-to-end machine learning projects from concept to deployment, navigating high levels of ambiguity and complexity.
• Develop automated processes for large-scale data pipelines, model development, and serving (MLOps).
• Proactively identify and improve team processes, seeking opportunities to increase efficiency, collaboration, and productivity.
• Collaborate with product and technical leaders to define roadmaps and deliver solutions that align with business goals.
• Partner with cross-functional teams across Amazon Advertising to build integrated solutions.
• Leverage the latest ML and code generators (such as Kiro) to optimize the software development lifecycle, including design, automated testing, and documentation.

Our team within the Creative X organization is focused on creating an engaging user experience through content and interactivity enrichment, while helping advertisers reach their target audience at scale.

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle.
• Experience building complex software systems successfully delivered to customers.
• Demonstrated success collaborating with Data Scientists/Applied Scientists to product ionize, deploy, and own high-scale Machine Learning and sophisticated Generative/Agentic AI systems, with advanced experience in MLOps and a proven track record of increasing engineering efficiency.

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

Pay for this position ranges from $151,300 per year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500 per year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on market location and may also include equity, sign‑on payments, and other forms of compensation as part of a total compensation package.