Amazon
Software Development Engineer, Ads - Publisher Technology
$165K–$224K
Palo Alto, CA · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture; 1+ year of software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ year developing large-scale software; 1+ year of Object Oriented Design.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Designs and builds distributed ad-serving services that process real-time auctions and support publisher integrations, auction mechanics, and privacy enforcement.
What you'll do
- Build reliable, low-latency services for global OpenRTB bid requests and evolve integrations across web, mobile, STV, and audio.
- Develop auction and pricing infrastructure that supports publisher yield while enforcing buyer controls, privacy regulations, and brand safety.
- Improve ad-serving reliability and observability, owning availability, latency, and correctness metrics.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- At least 1 year developing large-scale software applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; at least 1 year of Object Oriented Design experience.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; programming experience in at least one language.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
OpenRTB, C#, C++, Java, Perl
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