Software Dev Engineer, Contextual Advertising

Amazon's Contextual Advertising team is at the forefront of solving industry-defining challenges in the advertising space. The role focuses on building an innovative advertising product that addresses the evolving landscape of digital advertising, particularly in response to the deprecation of traditional identifiers like cookies.

The Comet team, which powers Amazon Ads' contextual signal service, is responsible for providing contextual signals from both third-party offsite and first-party properties beyond the Amazon Store. The team leverages cutting-edge generative AI and engineering solutions to extract and generate contextual signals, processing billions of bid requests daily through real-time, batch, and stream processing systems.

As an SDE2, you'll be working on building large-scale distributed systems including web crawlers, contextual processing systems, and data storage solutions. The role involves designing and implementing highly available, efficient, and low-latency infrastructure that will be used across multiple contextual advertising use cases. The team operates with a loosely coupled architecture, utilizing both synchronous and asynchronous messaging patterns.

This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of Engineering and Science, implementing complex machine learning and optimization algorithms at scale. The team embraces a technology-agnostic approach, choosing the best tools for each specific challenge. You'll be responsible for architectural decisions, collaborating on the full software development lifecycle, and mentoring other engineers.

The position offers the chance to work on disruptive technology in the advertising industry while being part of Amazon's fast-growing multi-billion dollar advertising business that spans across desktop, mobile, and connected devices, encompassing ads on Amazon and a vast network of third-party publishers globally.