Software Development Engineer, Amazon Publisher Monetization - Video Ads, Ads - Video Demand - Fixed
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 23, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 16, 2026. Amazon scores B on the Alion truth index.
We're seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer to join our team to growth the premium product offerings. You'll be at the forefront of building enterprise-scale advertising technology that powers premium brand experiences across Prime Video's global platform. To be successful in this role, you will focus on building solutions for complex ad serving scenarios, including dynamic commercial break patterns and specialized ad slot management, collaborate with Prime Video and Publishing Technology teams to implement new advertising formats and drive technical solutions for product features like category exclusivity, targeting controls, and impression-based sponsorships. We are looking for a leader who can thrive in a startup environment, embraces complexity and ambiguity, can move fast, and be responsible for all aspects of software development. If you are interested in making huge impact on a rapidly expanding team, come join us as we work hard, have fun, and make history.
Key job responsibilities
- Understand the fundamentals (and tradeoffs) of Amazon’s advertising stacks and related industry standards.
- Drive technical solutions/architecture for advertising workflow that can scale to server similar use cases.
- Lead the design of large components, get hands on and write code, and ultimately deploy successful enterprise-level systems that can be leveraged for a broad set of use cases.
- Decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions with a bias toward standards based and flexible designs.
- Develop a strong engineering culture of rapid experimentation, measurement, and iteration.
Build relationships and earn trust with partner teams.
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
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- 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
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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