Software Development Engineer II, Advertiser Engine; Advertising

Position: Software Development Engineer II, Advertiser Growth Engine (Advertising)
Software Development Engineer II, Advertiser Growth Engine  The Advertiser Growth Engine (AGE) team owns and builds services and applications across Amazon Advertising that make advertising across countries as easy as flipping on a switch. Our mission is to accelerate the path for millions of our Advertising clients in becoming global advertisers and brands.
We are currently recruiting Mid-Level Software Engineers who enjoy solving technical challenges at a global scale, simplifying and eliminating complexity as well as demonstrating a high sense of ownership and the ability to drive solutions from inception to delivery.
We have a strong culture of innovation, solving problems in creative ways and our track record of accomplishment’s speaks for itself. Over the past 2 years we have successfully:
Built world-class text, video, and image localization services leveraging experienced human linguists and machine translation to produce high quality Advertising content.
Leveraged ML and NLP to build a highly scalable service which intelligently routes translation content to human linguist by quality and SLA metrics.
Our current and future goals include:
Integrate video, text, and image localization services into workflows to improve our customer’s experience both on and off Ad Console.
Build an agentic platform that powers all Ads agent to communicate with advertisers in 20+ languages.
You will be joining a high-performing team at the core of the Amazon Ad’s ecosystem. You will be responsible for the entire development lifecycle, from feature ideation to deployment to operational excellence. The individual in this role will have responsibility through the full product life cycle, from product strategy, prioritization and development to adoption and iteration. We will be counting on you to have strong technical skills – you should be able to design and build high-availability, low-latency distributed systems that will service millions of users.

You will be expected to mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of innovation and high standards in the team.
Key job responsibilities   Design and implement software solutions across the full development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, architecture, coding, testing, deployment, and operational support.
Write high-quality, maintainable code and actively participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback that raises the bar for the entire team.
Identify root causes of operational issues and drive permanent fixes, continuously improving system reliability and performance.
Collaborate with cross-functional partners – including product managers, stakeholders, and peer engineers – to understand customer needs and deliver the right solutions.
Mentor and coach team members on software best practices, system design tradeoffs, and effective use of generative AI tools to improve productivity and code quality.
A day in the life  You start your morning reviewing deployment metrics and addressing any operational signals from overnight. By mid-morning, you are deep in a design discussion with teammates, weighing tradeoffs around scalability and maintainability for a new feature. After lunch, you spend time writing and reviewing code, pairing with a teammate who is ramping up on the codebase. You wrap up the afternoon by documenting your design decisions and preparing a brief update for your team's planning session.
About the team  Our team is focused on building reliable, scalable software that serves Amazon customers. We value collaboration, clear communication, and a commitment to getting things right. Engineers here have the opportunity to take on meaningful projects, influence technical direction, and grow their careers alongside talented peers.…