The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through industry leading 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 are energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising.

Key job responsibilities
We are looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer to join our team to design, develop and own Tier1 services that serve real-time bidding and ad network integrations. You will work across the intersection of Ad Tech and commerce — partnering across internal and external teams to connect systems, unlock customer insights, support our science team, and deliver results at scale, globally. You are entrepreneurial, biased for action, and you can simplify complexity without compromising on customer obsession. You bring a GenAI-first mindset to engineering and science, and you influence the product roadmap. In your day to day, you will work collaboratively with Software Engineers, Product and Program Managers to design and develop new ways of providing exciting and compelling experiences off-Amazon. You will drive independent decisions on implementation and seek guidance from peers and/or principals when facing complex architectural tradeoffs or ambiguous technical challenges.

A day in the life
As a software engineer on our team, you will:

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and Applied Scientists to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions that align with product objectives and user needs

• Design and build robust, scalable software systems using Gen AI tools that enhance shopper experiences, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams

• Own the complete lifecycle of software development and deployment, including system design, implementation, testing, monitoring, and maintenance of production services at scale

• Develop and implement low-latency, scalable, automated solutions for complex technical challenges, including distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines. You will also build the corresponding advertiser and shopper-facing applications.

• Contribute directly to critical system components, writing high-quality code that ensures engineering excellence in performance, reliability, and maintainability

• Apply software engineering best practices to your work, contribute technical insights to team discussions, and help drive innovation in system architecture and development methodologies

• Create technical documentation and effectively communicate system designs, implementation details, and project outcomes to both technical teams and stakeholders

• Participate in code reviews, share knowledge with team members, and contribute to establishing engineering standards that promote code quality and team effectiveness

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate solutions across the advertising ecosystem

• Identify and eliminate root causes of operational issues with permanent fixes; proactively improve team operations, tooling, and processes

• Stay current with advancements in software engineering, cloud technologies, and development tools, identifying opportunities to apply emerging technologies to solve real-world product challenges, and sharing findings to foster technical growth of other team members.

• Use GenAI tools to improve developer productivity and software efficiency

About the team

• The Sponsored Products and Brands
• Offsite team builds solutions that extend campaigns beyond the Amazon store, reaching shoppers across third-party environments where they discover and shop. We combine large-scale, low-latency systems with advanced machine learning and AI to deliver high-quality sponsored experiences in high-intent surfaces.

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 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
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Experience in analyzing complex, large-scale datasets and making data-driven decisions

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
• Gen AI Proficiency
• Be proficient in GenAI tools to improve development velocity and introduce GenAI Natively in the ad serving pipeline to improve advertiser and shopper experience.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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, CA, Palo Alto - 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually
USA, NY, New York - 158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually