Software Development Engineer, Device Advertising Job at Amazon in Sunnyvale ID-9800

March 31, 2025

A part of the exponentially growing Amazon advertising software team, our team focuses on software products and features that enable ads on Alexa devices. We offer a creative, fast-paced, entrepreneurial work environment where you’ll be at the center of Amazon innovation. This is your opportunity to help us in exploring new ideas & technology to expand our advertising products. You will be continually experimenting with new ideas that will delight our customers and innovate to simplify existing models to provide faster, better, and more optimized experiences. This is a strategic initiative for the company and we are growing quickly. If you are curious and excited about tackling the most challenging problems in technology and business, you will love it here!

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Key Job Responsibilities

As an engineer, you enjoy working on MVP products & innovating on behalf of the customer. You are motivated to own & deliver features by working across the tech stack, whether it is Services, big data, programming on Android, UI, or anything in between – basically a developer that loves to take on new challenges and refuses to get comfortable with the status quo. You enjoy building elegant systems that will scale to support millions of users. Passion for the customer and their experience with our products is a key requirement for you. You take pride in shipping robust, high-quality software. It won’t be easy. The challenges that come with scale and balancing speed of execution with long-term thought will pose interesting, unique technical problems. These are big challenges that will move the needle for our advertising program. Join us today to be part of this highly motivated and fun-loving team!

We are an entirely product-focused team. Our design & code touches device software, backend services, device & server UI, big-data pipelines, and everything in between.

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 committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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