Amazon
Software Development Engineer, Cinder
$144K–$224K
Seattle, WA +2 · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
SEATTLE, WA
Palo Alto, CA - Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience; 2+ years of non-internship systems design or architecture experience. Preferred: 4+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Preferred: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Develop and operate high-performance, low-latency ad-serving systems, optimizing real-time ad delivery, cost, reliability, and scalability.
What you'll do
- Optimize real-time ad-serving flows and develop systems serving multi-format ads at multi-million TPS scale.
- Own projects end to end and guide partner teams toward appropriate technical solutions.
- Improve the ad-serving ecosystem, including system reliability and operational efficiency.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship experience in design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- 4+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
USD 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 annually (base salary); USD 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 annually (base salary)
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