Senior Software Development Engineer, Ads AI Core Infrastructure (ACI), Ads AI Core Infrastructure
Amazon1 day ago
Base Salary
$185k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and technical direction of Tier-1 distributed services handling millions of requests per day with millisecond latency and strict SLAs.
- Design and re-architect stateful runtime services, orchestration systems, and platform components for AI-agent development.
- Make build-versus-buy, data, storage, latency, reliability, and foundational technology decisions.
- Lead design and code reviews, document technical trade-offs, and establish maintainable engineering standards.
- Mentor SDE-1s and SDE-2s and improve the team’s design judgment and technical output.
- Identify systemic risks, drive root-cause fixes, and maintain long-term correctness, scalability, latency, and operational health.
- Partner across teams and organizations to align technical contracts, roadmaps, and production services.
- Translate Applied Scientist research into production-ready services.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 6 years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- At least 6 years of experience leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team leader.
- Preferred: 6+ years covering the full software development lifecycle, 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, and prescription coverage, plus life and AD&D insurance options.
- 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 compensation package may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units.
About Amazon
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.