Software Development Engineer, Conversational Ads Experience

Build the systems that deliver billions of personalized ad impressions daily — combining large-scale distributed services, LLMs, and innovative shopper experiences to help brands connect with customers during their most inspired shopping moments. You'll work on forward-thinking projects that impact both Amazon's architecture and business at massive scale.

The Conversational Ad Experiences team within Sponsored Products and Brands is making Amazon the best-in-class destination for shoppers to discover, engage, and build affinity with brands and products. We deliver visually appealing, inspiring, and relevant sponsored shopping content that helps advertisers — big or small — reach potential customers during their research and consideration stages. Our distributed ad serving services operate at low latency and high scalability, serving both billions of Amazon shoppers and millions of advertisers worldwide. We're only getting started.

Key job responsibilities
- Design, develop, and operate large-scale distributed services capable of processing millions of requests daily with low latency and high availability
- Leverage LLMs and Generative AI to solve complex problems and deliver personalized, contextually relevant ad experiences
- Partner with engineering, science, and business teams to design, implement, and launch new shopper-facing ad experiences
- Collaborate with senior SDEs and Principal Engineers on architecture and system design for high-impact, strategic projects
- Build and optimize ad serving infrastructure that scales to serve billions of impressions across Amazon pages worldwide
- Write high-quality, maintainable code and drive operational excellence through monitoring and continuous improvement

About the team
The Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) 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. 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

- 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
- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

- 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
- Knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals, including transformer architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization techniques

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 - 158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually