Senior Software Development Engineer, Sponsored Products and Brands

Amazon • Seattle, WA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

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.

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.

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
• Build large-scale, low-latency distributed systems
• Develop ML infrastructure and data processing pipelines
• Partner with our science team to implement LLM models in production
• Contribute to LLMOps
• Design, build, and operate key pieces of customer-facing functionality impacting hundreds of millions of Amazon shoppers worldwide

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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