Amazon
Software Development Engineer
$158K–$214K
New York, NY · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture; 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ years developing large-scale software using a listed language.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).
About the job
Builds real-time ad retrieval systems for Amazon’s non-Search surfaces, including model serving, distributed indexing, and experimentation to select and enrich ads.
What you'll do
- Develop low-latency ad retrieval services, model-serving infrastructure, and distributed indexing pipelines.
- Integrate fulfillment signals and launch retrieval models and indexes through A/B experiments.
- Deliver features end to end, including deployment, monitoring, on-call operations, and peer mentoring.
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.
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
- Experience with Object Oriented Design, programming in at least one language, and 1+ years developing large-scale software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience; bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Experience with distributed services, search or vector retrieval, production ML or generative AI serving, Spark, or advertising, recommendation, or e-commerce systems.
Pay
158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C#, C++, Java, Perl, Lucene, Elasticsearch, Spark
AI focus
Serve real-time embedding inference and bring retrieval models into production; preferred experience includes serving machine learning or generative AI models.
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