Are you passionate about leveraging latest AI technology to revolutionize advertising solutions? We're seeking a talented Software Development Engineer III to join our innovative team that enables the most advanced advertisers to scale through application of emerging technologies. In this role, you'll identify opportunities to improve customer experience by monitoring the latest advancements in AI technology and quickly implementing features to support them. You'll drive real-time technologies for reporting and analytics data through agentic applications, while contributing to our highly-visible Amazon Ads MCP server and API gateway initiatives.

This position offers significant owner-level impact as you shape the future of advertising technology. You'll collaborate with engineering counterparts across teams to build consensus on new features, while applying your technical prowess to solve complex problems. If you excel at dealing with ambiguity and are excited about intelligent architecture and green-field development opportunities, this role provides the perfect balance of innovation, technical challenge, and meaningful customer impact.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of latest AI technologies that enhance the Amazon Ads platform, ensuring solutions balance speed of delivery with scalability for future growth.
- Drive cross-team collaborations to build consensus on new advertising features, working effectively with engineering counterparts to align on technical direction and implementation approaches.
- Monitor industry advancements in AI technology, proactively identify opportunities for implementation, and translate these insights into actionable product enhancements that improve customer experience.
- Own and enhance real-time technologies for reporting and analytics data through agentic applications, ensuring high performance, reliability, and security at scale.
- Provide technical leadership for the Amazon Ads MCP server and API gateway, making architectural decisions that optimize for simplicity, maintainability, and performance while mentoring other engineers on best practices.

A day in the life
Your day begins with a technical discussion with engineering teams to align on an upcoming AI feature for the ads platform. After reviewing code contributions from team members, you research the latest industry developments in machine learning applications for advertising. You spend time refining the architecture for a new API endpoint in the gateway, ensuring it meets performance requirements. Later, you collaborate with product managers to translate customer feedback into technical specifications and mentor junior engineers on optimizing data structures for real-time analytics processing.

About the team
Our team enables the most advanced advertisers to scale through the application of latest technology and creativity. We provide efficient real-time technologies for access to reporting and analytics data through agentic applications. The team builds and maintains the Amazon Ads MCP server as well as the API gateway - highly-visible initiatives with extensive opportunities for intelligent architecture and green-field development.

On this team, you will have owner-level impact in shaping the future of advertising technology and experience the satisfaction of seeing your solutions make a meaningful difference for our customers. We foster an inclusive environment where technical expertise is valued and innovation is encouraged, allowing team members to tackle complex challenges while delivering significant business impact.