Contract Amazon Software Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

Amazon's Advertising Technology team builds the technology infrastructure to manage billions of advertising queries every day. The result is better quality advertising for publishers and more relevant ads for customers. In this organization you'll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment, while leveraging the resources of Amazon.com (AMZN), one of the world's leading companies.
Amazon Publisher Services (APS) helps publishers of all sizes and on all channels better monetize their content through effective advertising. APS unites publishers with advertisers across devices and media channels. We work with Amazon teams across the globe to solve complex problems for our customers. The end results are Amazon products that let publishers focus on what they do best - publishing.
APS is revolutionizing live sports advertising with high-performance ad technology and real-time optimization across the world's biggest sporting events. We're building the next generation of infrastructure for live sports-tackling millisecond-critical decisioning at Amazon scale while delivering effective monetization for publishers and relevant ads for viewers.
As a Software Development Engineer, you will design and build the systems that power real-time ad decisioning for live sports at massive scale. You will work on low-latency, high-throughput services that handle millions of concurrent viewers during the world's biggest sporting events. Your work will directly impact how ads are selected, served, and optimized in real time, delivering relevant experiences to viewers while maximizing publisher revenue.
This role involves building distributed systems that operate under strict latency constraints, developing server-side ad insertion infrastructure, implementing programmatic auction mechanics, and creating real-time bidding pipelines that process billions of requests. You will collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and fellow engineers to solve complex technical challenges at the intersection of advertising technology and live streaming.
A successful candidate is passionate about building high-performance systems, thrives on solving hard distributed systems problems, and takes ownership of their work from design through production. You write clean, maintainable code, think critically about system reliability and scalability, and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment where your contributions have direct customer impact.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain low-latency, high-availability services for real-time ad decisioning during live sports events
- Implement and improve programmatic auction and real-time bidding systems operating under strict SLA requirements
- Write high-quality, well-tested code and participate in code reviews to maintain engineering excellence
- Contribute to system design discussions, technical documentation, and architectural decisions
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues, participating in on-call rotations
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product management, data engineering, and demand-side platform teams
- Identify opportunities to improve system performance, reliability, and operational efficiency
About the team
Amazon Publisher Services (APS) helps publishers of all sizes and on all channels better monetize their content through effective advertising. APS unites publishers with advertisers across devices and media channels. We work with Amazon teams across the globe to solve complex problems for our customers. Our work spans product development, technology innovation, and cross-functional collaboration as we shape the future of advertising at Amazon.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 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, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience on highly concurrent, high throughput systems and knowledge of complex distributed systems
- Experience in managing or implementing system health, performance monitoring, capacity planning, or process improvement and automation
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- - Experience with streaming media, video infrastructure, or ad technology
- - Understanding of programmatic advertising concepts (RTB, auction mechanics, SSAI)
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, TX, Austin - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually