Software Development Engineer II, AWS RTB Fabric

Amazon

Amazon

Software Engineering

Seattle, WA, USA

Posted on May 15, 2026

Description

This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains, providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.

We are a new team within the AWS Marketplace organization that is focused on providing immediate business value to advertising technology (ad tech) companies, media publishers as well as advertisers and brands. We are building technology that will satisfy the very stringent ad tech technology requirements around scale, low latency and cost efficiency. You will be joining a strong team with a great work environment, with an opportunity to lead the technology and product decisions we make on behalf of these interesting customer challenges. We work largely as a startup within a larger org, and prize proactive customer-focused thinking.

The ideal candidate should and have experience in building distributed systems, with strength on infrastructure concepts, software-defined networking, containerization, and low-level programming (ideally in Rust). In addition to strong technical knowledge, the ideal candidate should thrive in a fast-paced start-up like environment and be passionate about solving ambiguous problems.

Please note that this position can only be based out of Seattle.

Key job responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, and deliver solutions.
- Participate in code and design reviews.
- Own areas of expertise, and help to build + refine our backlog of items in these areas


A day in the life
Writing and reviewing code, participating in the planning process, attending doc reviews, working with partners and product to refine requirements.

About the team
The RTB Fabric team is like a well-funded startup within a larger, established AWS organization. We prize collaboration and individual drive, and strive to enable ICs to own & drive their workstreams independently but with support.

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

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Work/Life Balance

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