Amazon is building a world class advertising business and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales of merchandise. Our products are strategically important to our retail and marketplace businesses, driving long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving group with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new ideas and opportunities.
Key job responsibilities We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer for the Conversational Ad Experiences (CAX) team within Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB). SPB helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners grow incremental sales of their products on Amazon through native product advertising.
The CAX team focuses on sponsored conversational shopping experiences powered by large language models (LLMs). The team is working on multiple "industry-first" projects that are ambiguous and challenging, but offer the opportunity to have a significant impact on both our shoppers and business.
As an engineer on the team, you will drive major product and engineering initiatives, build large-scale, low-latency distributed systems, and develop ML infrastructure and data processing pipelines. You will partner with our science team to implement LLM models in production and contribute to LLMOps. You will be responsible for designing, building, and operating key pieces of customer-facing functionality impacting hundreds of millions of Amazon shoppers worldwide.
About the team The Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through advanced generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights. We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ 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
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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, WA, SEATTLE - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually