The role is for a Software Development Engineer (SDE) on the APEX team within Amazon Advertising, focusing on real-time event processing systems that handle billions of events daily. The team is responsible for ensuring the accuracy and efficiency of ad serving processes, where even minor inefficiencies can lead to significant financial losses. The position requires a strong emphasis on low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems. Candidates will be expected to contribute to architecture decisions and maintain operational excellence.

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience of new and existing systems
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience

• Design and implement features for real-time event processing systems handling billions of events per day
• Own end-to-end delivery of software components including requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support
• Build and maintain distributed systems that process advertising signals with low latency at high throughput
• Participate in on-call rotations and operational excellence initiatives to maintain 100% availability
• Contribute to architecture decisions for event pipelines, caching layers, and data transformation services
• Write high-quality, maintainable code with thorough unit and integration test coverage
• Collaborate with partner teams across the ad serving stack
• Mentor teammates and participate in code/design reviews

• Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.