Amazon's Sponsored Brands Advertising org stands at the forefront of digital commerce innovation, seamlessly blending advertising expertise with e-commerce excellence. Our platform empowers businesses to connect with millions of Amazon shoppers through sophisticated advertising solutions, spanning across Amazon.com and affiliated platforms. With our customer-first philosophy, we're revolutionizing how brands engage with shoppers, creating immersive and personalized discovery experiences that transform the traditional shopping journey. Our team crafts visually compelling, targeted advertising experiences that help brands capture customer attention during crucial decision-making moments, resulting in billions of daily ad impressions and millions of customer engagements.

We are seeking an experienced and innovative software engineer to join our team and drive new initiatives in ad technology. You should be passionate about defining product technical strategies and architectures, and ready to collaborate with business partners to design, implement, and launch Gen AI ad solutions. You will be responsible for developing highly scalable distributed systems that guarantee availability, scalability, and low latency. We're looking for someone with strong technical skills and proven experience leading large-scale distributed services. The ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment, handle ambiguity, and manage competing priorities is essential. This role offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of e-commerce, advertising, and state-of-the-art machine learning techniques. If you're excited about making a lasting impact in the advertising space and possess the skills to excel in a fast-paced, innovative environment, we want to hear from you.

• Key job responsibilities
• Design and develop highly scalable services processing millions of daily requests.
• Solve complex software challenges using state-of-the-art technology.
• Translate functional requirements into robust, scalable solutions.
• Evaluate and select appropriate software products and tools.
• Gain exposure to search, advertising, and e-commerce platform technologies.
• Collaborate with data scientists and product managers on machine learning experiments.
• Implement end-to-end solutions to improve predictive models and infrastructure.
• Establish best practices and drive improvements in design, development, and operations.
• Mentor junior engineers in design, coding, troubleshooting, and operational excellence.
• Participate in Amazon's Software Development Community through Meet Ups, Hackathons, and Conferences.

About the team
Our team scope is broad and impactful. Our team works on shopper facing SB distributed services, which serve billions of Amazon shoppers and millions of Advertisers internationally. We are working on multiple cross-org architectural and business projects with highest impact and visibility – all are critical, forward-looking, strategic opportunities for Amazon. Our vision is to make Amazon the best in class destination for shoppers to discover, engage and build affinity with brands, making shopping beautiful, delightful, & personal, while allowing advertisers to sustainably grow their brand and business at scale with our advertising product(s).

About Sponsored Products and Brands:

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'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
• Background in advertising technology or e-commerce platforms
• Demonstrated track record of innovative AI solution development

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

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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, NY, New York - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually