Software Development Engineer III, Sponsored Products and Brands

Amazon • Seattle, WA

8h

About The Position

Amazon is building a world-class advertising business that delivers self-service
performance advertising products driving merchandise discovery and sales. Our
advertising solutions are strategically critical to our retail and marketplace
businesses' long-term growth. We serve billions of ad impressions and generate
millions of clicks daily while continuously breaking new ground in product
innovation. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving group with
an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With broad latitude to experiment
and innovate, the team is experiencing unprecedented growth and continuously
exploring new ideas and opportunities.

Key job responsibilities
We're seeking a Software Development Engineer to join our Conversational Ad
Experiences (CAX) team within Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB). SPB enables
merchants, vendors, and brand owners to drive incremental sales through
contextually relevant ads across Amazon properties (Amazon.com, Alexa, etc.) and
third-party publishers.
The CAX team specializes in developing sponsored conversational experiences
powered by large language models (LLMs). We're pioneering multiple
industry-first initiatives that, while complex and ambiguous, offer
opportunities to create significant impact for our consumers, advertisers, and
the business.

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.

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
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: ML compilers, production coding agents, GenAI model architecture, model training, neural network optimization, or alternatively applied math.

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 LLM-based AI workflows
• Partner with our science team to implement LLM models in production
• Contribute to LLMOps
• Design, build, and operate customer-facing functionality impacting hundreds of millions of shoppers worldwide

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level