Amazon
Software Development Engineer, Playback Team
$158K–$214K
Newark, NJ · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship system design or architecture experience; 3+ years’ software development and deployment experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Build and operate scalable audio advertising systems, including real-time ad-serving pipelines, while improving playback quality, latency, cost, and customer experience.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, test, and launch scalable advertising software and systems.
- Optimize ad-serving latency, cost, and business metrics; collaborate with Product, Applied Science, and engineering teams.
- Review code, mentor developers, and improve software quality and maintainability.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience programming in at least one software programming language.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- 3+ years’ experience developing and deploying distributed multi-tier applications.
Nice to have
- Experience delivering complex software systems to customers, or experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
- Full stack proficiency, such as Java, C++, Swift, Kotlin, JS, or TS.
Pay
158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Swift, Kotlin, JS, TS
AI focus
The role mentions conversational AI integration and designing and implementing machine learning solutions, but does not specify particular AI tasks.
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