Software Development Engineer, Sponsored Display Bidder
Software Development Engineer, Sponsored Display Bidder
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10-05-2025
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Orchestrating the selection of one out of tens of millions of ads honoring advertiser targeting intent for hundreds of thousands of advertisers while ensuring great shopper experience for billions of shoppers millions of times per second on a latency of tens of milliseconds is not a trivial task.
The SD bid orchestration team copes with this challenge and delights shoppers and advertisers everyday. You think that great engineering starts with simple solutions to iterate and learn from (vs perfect solutions)
Were looking for a Software Engineer in the Amazon Ads Sponsored Display organisation. This is a handson role to lead the creation of high throughput low latency software orchestrating bid requests for all customers worldwide.
You will embody engineering rigor designing and executing proofs of concept that validate the technical efficacy and business value of our product hypotheses. Then bringing them into production balancing speed of learnings with operational excellence.
Successful candidates will have strong technical ability self driven excellent teamwork and communication skills and a motivation to achieve business results in a fastpaced environment.
Key job responsibilities
Work side by side with our scientists to deliver code changes impacting all our ads stack
Rapidly prototype and test many possible hypotheses/implementation alternatives in a highambiguity environment making use of both quantitative analysis and business judgement
Work with very large datasets.
Integrate successful experimental results into largescale highly complex Amazon production systems capable of handling 100000s of transactions per second at low latency.
Automate monitor and self heal our systems
A day in the life
You will partner with our product teams bringing your own ideas to the conversation and aligning on work adjusting priorities based on business requirements and fast iteration on experiments.
You will work with scientists on rapid data gathering prototypes and analyses and represent the rigor of engineering in the conversation; you will engage with scientists product and finance to align on the benefits of the proposed approach.
You will help harmonise our product stack enabling simple monitoring and self healing that allow us to do more with less through automation and rapid diagnostic tools.
About the team
The SD bidder team is behind the brain of the Sponsored Display ad serving stack. We deliver large impact at huge scale and are proud of the scalability stability and operational excellence of our system but acknowledge the sly is the limit for our ambition to improve.
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including objectoriented design
Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
Experience in professional noninternship software development
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
Experience with full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover invent simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice ( to know more about how we collect use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The SD bid orchestration team copes with this challenge and delights shoppers and advertisers everyday. You think that great engineering starts with simple solutions to iterate and learn from (vs perfect solutions)
Were looking for a Software Engineer in the Amazon Ads Sponsored Display organisation. This is a handson role to lead the creation of high throughput low latency software orchestrating bid requests for all customers worldwide.
You will embody engineering rigor designing and executing proofs of concept that validate the technical efficacy and business value of our product hypotheses. Then bringing them into production balancing speed of learnings with operational excellence.
Successful candidates will have strong technical ability self driven excellent teamwork and communication skills and a motivation to achieve business results in a fastpaced environment.
Key job responsibilities
Work side by side with our scientists to deliver code changes impacting all our ads stack
Rapidly prototype and test many possible hypotheses/implementation alternatives in a highambiguity environment making use of both quantitative analysis and business judgement
Work with very large datasets.
Integrate successful experimental results into largescale highly complex Amazon production systems capable of handling 100000s of transactions per second at low latency.
Automate monitor and self heal our systems
A day in the life
You will partner with our product teams bringing your own ideas to the conversation and aligning on work adjusting priorities based on business requirements and fast iteration on experiments.
You will work with scientists on rapid data gathering prototypes and analyses and represent the rigor of engineering in the conversation; you will engage with scientists product and finance to align on the benefits of the proposed approach.
You will help harmonise our product stack enabling simple monitoring and self healing that allow us to do more with less through automation and rapid diagnostic tools.
About the team
The SD bidder team is behind the brain of the Sponsored Display ad serving stack. We deliver large impact at huge scale and are proud of the scalability stability and operational excellence of our system but acknowledge the sly is the limit for our ambition to improve.
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including objectoriented design
Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
Experience in professional noninternship software development
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
Experience with full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover invent simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice ( to know more about how we collect use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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