Software Development Engineer, Search Thematic Advertising Experiences

Amazon • New York, NY

20h • Onsite

About The Position

The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through 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. The Search Thematic Advertising Experiences team, within Sponsored Products, is seeking a Software Development Engineer to build scalable, high-performance systems that power natural language understanding, personalization, and other ML-driven capabilities. In this role, you will have the opportunity to architect and build the services and infrastructure behind new ads experiences that elevate the shopping experience for our hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. As a Software Development Engineer, you will partner with other talented engineers and scientists to design, build, test, and deploy production systems that serve machine learning models at scale. You will be responsible for translating business and scientific requirements into robust, maintainable software solutions, building APIs and data pipelines, and instrumenting systems to measure how shoppers and advertisers are responding to changes. We are looking for candidates who thrive in an exciting, fast-paced environment and who have a strong personal interest in learning, building distributed systems, and creating new technologies with high customer impact.

Requirements

• 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
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Nice To Haves

• 4+ 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

• Help merchants, retail vendors and brand owners grow incremental sales of their products on Amazon through native product advertising
• Drive major product and engineering initiatives
• Build large-scale, low-latency distributed systems
• Build ML infrastructure and data processing pipelines
• Partner with our science team to develop models that optimize shopper experience
• Design, build, and operate key pieces of customer facing functionality

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
• Education Level: Associate degree