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Software Development Engineer, Ads - Publisher Technology; Advertising

Job in Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California, 94306, USA
Listing for: Amazon Inc.
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-10-11
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    AI Engineer (Applied/Software), Machine Learning/ ML Engineer, Software Engineer, Backend Developer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 165200 - 223600 USD Yearly USD 165200.00 223600.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Software Development Engineer, Ads - Publisher Technology

Job :  |  Services LLC

Amazon's advertising technology powers billions of ad auctions every day, connecting publishers with advertisers to deliver relevant ads and fund the content audiences rely on.

Ads Publisher Technologies (Pub Tech) builds the ad serving infrastructure at the center of this - processing real-time auctions across web, mobile, streaming video, audio, and connected TV for publishers including Prime Video, Twitch, and Tubi. We give publishers access to Amazon's demand and the tools to grow their ad revenue, so they can focus on publishing.

As an SDE on the Pub Tech Ad Serving team, you will design and build the distributed services that process real-time bid requests  will work across the ad serving stack - publisher integrations, auction mechanics, bidder protocols, and privacy enforcement - and own features that directly affect publisher revenue and advertiser outcomes.

Key job responsibilities
  • Design and build reliable, low-latency services that process real-time OpenRTB bid requests across global regions.
  • Architect and evolve publisher integrations across web, mobile, STV, and audio inventory types.
  • Build auction and pricing infrastructure that maximizes publisher yield while enforcing buyer controls, privacy regulations, and brand safety signals.
  • Drive reliability and observability improvements across the ad serving stack, owning availability, latency, and correctness metrics end-to-end.
  • Partner with engineers and product managers to deliver features that improve publisher yield and buyer experience.
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

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

Los Angeles County applicants:
Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position.

These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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