senior Software Engineer ic 5+ yrs Bachelor's · Posted Feb 16, 2026
$184,900 – $250,200
USD per year

About this role

Amazon is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in New York City, NY. The posting calls out experience with Distributed Systems, System Design, Machine Learning, AI Agents and roughly 5+ years of relevant work. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent. Compensation is listed at $184,900–$250,200 per year.

Role
Software Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
New York City, NY
Experience
5+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Department
Software Development
Posted
Feb 16, 2026
AI Summary
Design and deliver core infrastructure for AI agents in Amazon Ads, building scalable, low-latency services supporting real-time agent execution. Own full development lifecycle from design to production. Requires 5+ years software development, system design expertise, and proven technical leadership across multiple teams.

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Job description

from Amazon careers

Advertisers and advertising tools are rapidly adopting AI agents to plan, optimize, and achieve marketing goals. The Ads Agent Fabric team’s mission is to deliver a common infrastructure supporting all advertising-aware model-based applications (i.e., agents) and accelerate development of agentic applications for our advertisers. The team is responsible for an agent-builder SDK with pre-integrated Ads features, agent-builder tools that accelerate develop, test, and model evaluation lifecycle, and a fully-managed runtime with integrated access to the Ads services, data, and foundational models. As an SDE3 on the Agent Fabric team, you will own the design and delivery of critical infrastructure components that enable Amazon Ads to build and deploy AI agents at scale. You'll work at the intersection of distributed systems, machine learning infrastructure, and developer tooling, defining technical strategy for how thousands of advertisers interact with AI-powered advertising solutions. This role requires deep technical expertise in building scalable platforms and comfort with ambiguity as you'll be building in an emerging space where best practices and technical requirements are still be defined. You will need strong system design skills, ability to define technical strategy, and capability to influence architecture decisions across multiple teams. Key job responsibilities - Own the full software…

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