Software Development Engineer, Ads Core Services (ACS), Advertising Permissions

Join our team to build the foundational services powering Amazon's advertising platform, handling millions of requests daily while maintaining millisecond-level performance. You'll design and develop distributed systems that directly impact how billions of ad impressions reach customers across Amazon and beyond, solving complex challenges in access management, authorization, and real-time data processing at unprecedented scale.

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products.

A successful candidate will have the satisfaction of seeing their work on the Amazon.com website and numerous other websites, where it will be viewed by tens of millions of customers and will drive quantifiable revenue impact, broaden their technical skills and work in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and product innovation. This is a role with direct impact on the success of advertising at Amazon.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and build full-stack solutions.
- Use your problem-solving skills, collaborating with creative and technical teams, thinking-big and inventing and simplifying to solve challenges.
- Deliver novel customer experiences by developing solutions.
- Collaborate with teams across Amazon to integrate and optimize existing ad products to take advantage of Amazon's scale and reach.
- Leverage your technical ability, excellent organizational and communication skills to build and solve challenging and ambiguous problems. You'll use your ingenuity and motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.
- Provide guidance to and mentor other SDEs in the team.
- Be responsible for a high quality bar, ensuring quality design reviews and robust engineering practices for automated testing and code coverage.

A day in the life
In this role, you'll focus on building and optimizing Tier-1 services that form the backbone of Amazon Advertising's authorization infrastructure. You'll work on next-generation access management systems that handle double-digit thousands of transactions per second, ensuring every advertiser request is properly authenticated and authorized. Your day might include designing new distributed solutions to handle our rapidly growing scale, collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand evolving business needs, and mentoring junior engineers as you shape the technical direction of our platform. You'll engage with Principal Engineers to tackle complex architectural challenges, participate in code reviews, and contribute to our culture of continuous innovation and experimentation.

About the team
We're building the access control and permissions infrastructure that enables Amazon's advertising business to scale securely and efficiently. Our team owns critical services that are called for nearly every interaction with Amazon Advertising APIs, serving both internal and external partners. We're entrepreneurial and action-oriented, with a mandate to experiment, innovate, and push the boundaries of what's possible in distributed systems. Our work directly supports millions of customers and drives measurable business impact. We're committed to fostering an environment where technical excellence, creativity, and collaboration thrive, and where your contributions shape the future of e-commerce advertising.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

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

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, NY, New York - 158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually