Senior Software Development Engineer, Sponsored Products and Brands

Amazon • Seattle, WA

3d • $168,100 - $250,200 • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Advertising is building a world-class advertising business, delivering self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales of merchandise. We are seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE III) to join the Conversational Ad Experiences (CAX) team within Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB). SPB helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners grow incremental sales through native product advertising on Amazon. The CAX team focuses on sponsored conversational shopping experiences powered by large language models (LLMs), 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. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving group with an entrepreneurial spirit, a bias for action, and a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Drive major product and engineering initiatives for conversational ad experiences across Amazon Store and Alexa+ surfaces
• Design, build, and operate large-scale, low-latency distributed systems serving hundreds of millions of Amazon shoppers worldwide
• Develop ad serving infrastructure and data processing pipelines to support LLM-powered conversational shopping experiences
• Collaborate with product and science teams to build end-to-end solutions for sponsored conversational experiences
• Own key pieces of customer-facing functionality, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance at Amazon scale
• Contribute to "industry-first" projects in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment that is growing at an unprecedented rate

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree