Software Development Engineer II, Ads AI Core Infra
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 27, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 8, 2026.
Are you passionate about developing real-time, distributed, large-scale services? Like to interact with worldwide advertising customers to build systems that makes advertising and it's functions automated and frictionless? Interested in being part of a worldwide Advertising Engineering team? Then, our Software Development team wants you! We are expanding the Ads Engineering function in Melbourne. So do you want to work for a start up in one of the worlds biggest companies?
Come join us as an SDE!
Amazon Advertising is looking for a Software Development Engineer who shares Amazon Advertising’s passion for building and delivering a global, scalable, extensible, and secure services to support advertisers.
You'll become part of a highly motivated team of talented multi-functional builders (front and backend developers) who can collaborate with product managers, technical specialists, and principals across the company. Your team will support the global technology roadmap for our Advertising AI Core Infra technology teams. You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that’s higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems that, haven’t been solved at scale before - anywhere. You will encounter challenging, novel situations every day and given the size of this initiative, you’ll have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon in different locations. We’re looking for self-motivated engineers who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, can demonstrate a high degree of teamwork, and want to have fun while they make history and collaborate on beautiful products.
A successful candidate will have strong technical skills, and a history of delivering high quality code to solve complex business problems. Written and verbal communication in this role are critical: you will author narratives that will be consumed by Amazonians at all levels.
Key Technical Challenges:
Distributed and Scalable Architecture: The global Ads Availability team owns Tier 1 critical service infrastructure that forms the backbone of Ad serving. We have enabled this service infrastructure across multiple regions and Availability Zones.
High Availability: This role will provide critical support to the Global Ads Availability team that owns a key Ads wide Availability framework. It is critical to ensure that this framework remains highly available. High Availability architecture will help us make sure that the system is configured to handle different loads and different failures with minimal or no downtime.
Security is at the heart of all operations. This role will collaborate with Global teams to ensure Advertising services remain highly secure.
Key job responsibilities
- Business problem is defined. Technology strategy may not be defined.
- Delivers independently, with limited guidance.
- Solves complex software problems. Solutions are extensible and scale. Removes bottlenecks. Makes trade-offs: short-term vs. long-term technical decisions.
- Designs, develops, tests, and deploys software.
- Lead large projects. Knows how to divide so they can work in parallel with other SDEs and reassemble into a cohesive launch.
- 100% AWS Technologies A day in the life Your day begins with a quick team stand-up to align on priorities before diving into coding tasks. Throughout the day, you'll collaborate with experienced Amazonians across disciplines, working on designing and building innovative technologies in our large distributed computing environment. You'll participate in code reviews, contribute to technical discussions, and help solve complex problems while working in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software. About the team Our growing team in Melbourne is passionate about solving business challenges through innovative technology. We hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers, focusing intensely on their needs in everything we do. The challenges we solve are significant and impact millions of customers, advertisers, and products globally. We're looking for individuals excited by the idea of creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity in an environment where ship cycles are measured in weeks, not years. Our team values collaboration and supports new members with knowledge-sharing and mentorship opportunities.
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
Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
IDE statement:
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