Amazon

Senior Software Development Engineer

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3 days ago
Seattle, WA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
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Base Salary

$185k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the auto-optimization platform architecture and engineering roadmap.
  • Build agent execution, orchestration, tool invocation, state management, and scheduling systems across millions of campaigns.
  • Develop the action layer for live campaign changes, including advertiser controls, spend limits, conflict handling, rollback, and audit trails.
  • Define safety standards with observability, drift detection, and safeguards that pause optimization when outcomes worsen.
  • Build offline and online evaluation systems using simulation, A/B tests, and holdouts.
  • Create reusable registries of tools and data and integrate model tuning, versioning, rollout, and rollback workflows.
  • Prototype agent architectures, evaluate them for production, and meet latency, availability, and cost targets.
  • Mentor engineers, lead design and code reviews, support hiring, and own operational responsibilities including on-call and COEs.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • At least 5 years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
  • At least 5 years of experience leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including reliability and scaling.
  • Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
  • Preferred: at least 5 years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, and AD&D coverage.
  • Employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • The posting lists New York City and Seattle locations with annual base salary ranges.
  • The package may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units.
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About Amazon

10,000+ employees

Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.

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