Amazon.com Services LLC

Software Development, Advertising

SoftwareDevelopmentEngineerII

$70–194k Austin, Texas, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Mid candidates.

The Brief

“Software Development Engineer II at Amazon.com Services LLC. Skills: Distributed systems, Video advertising, Machine learning, Large-scale systems. Design scalable distributed systems. Implement scalable distributed systems”

Industry & Context.

Software Development, Advertising
Problems you'll solve

Troubleshoot production issues

Eligibility Requirements

On-call rotation

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent, 3+ years professional software development, 2+ years design or architecture, 1+ years software development engineer, 1+ years designing distributed software, 1+ years Object Oriented Design, Experience programming at least one language

Nice to Have

3+ years full software development life cycle, Bachelor's degree in computer science, Machine Learning fundamentals, Large Language Model fundamentals

What You'll Do.

Design scalable distributed systems

Implement scalable distributed systems

Maintain scalable distributed systems

Write maintainable code

Write comprehensive tests

Participate in code reviews

Contribute to best practices

Collaborate with product teams

Collaborate with business teams

Translate requirements into solutions

Troubleshoot production issues

Implement solutions for reliability

Contribute to operational excellence

Mentor junior engineers

Contribute to knowledge sharing

Participate in on-call rotation

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams; Product managers; Data scientists; Engineering teams

Full Job Description

Job Description The Ads - Video Demand team is seeking a talented Software Development Engineer II to join our high-performing engineering team. You will work on building and scaling systems that power Amazon's video advertising platform, directly impacting how millions of customers discover products through video content. As an SDE II on our team, you will design, develop, and maintain distributed systems that handle massive scale while ensuring low latency and high availability. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, data scientists, and other engineering teams to deliver innovative advertising solutions that drive business growth. This role offers the opportunity to work on challenging technical problems in audience targeting, behavioral analysis, and real-time ad serving systems. You'll contribute to architectural decisions, mentor junior engineers, and help shape the technical direction of our products. Key job responsibilities - Design, implement, and maintain scalable distributed systems for video advertising platforms - Write clean, maintainable code with comprehensive testing and documentation - Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices - Collaborate with product and business teams to translate requirements into technical solutions - Troubleshoot production issues and implement solutions to improve system reliability - Contribute to operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, and automation - Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team knowledge sharing - Participate in on-call rotation to ensure system availability About the team The Ads - Video Demand team is responsible for building systems that power Amazon's video advertising platform. We work on challenging problems at the intersection of video technology, machine learning, and large-scale distributed systems. Our team values: Operational Excellence: We maintain high availability systems with quick incident resolution Innov

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