Sr. Software Development Engineer, Sponsored Products

**We have openings in New York Palo Alto Seattle. **

Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising offering a rich array of digital display advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers on across our other owned and operated sites on other high quality sites across the web and on millions of Kindles tablets and mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do including advertising. If youre interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique world-class advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer youve come to the right place.

Performance Advertisings vision is to enable advertisers of all sizes with self-service products to build their brand and business at Amazon delivering automation for novices and controls for expert users. We are focused on continuous exploration of contexts and creative formats where advertising delivers value to customers and advertisers. Our products are auction based cost-per-click and drive traffic within the Amazon shopping experience addressing lower and mid-funnel marketing goals. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class highly performant advertising products. We are highly motivated collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate we are growing fast with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.

Our systems and algorithms operate on one of the worlds largest product catalogs matching shoppers with advertised products with a high relevance bar and strict latency constraints. We work hand-in-hand with Machine Learning scientists to come up with novel solutions that deliver highly relevant ads. We consistently strive to improve the customer search and detail page experiences. You will drive appropriate technology choices for the business lead the way for continuous innovation and shape the future of e-commerce.

If you are looking to make an impact this is the team for you. You will not only have the satisfaction of seeing your work deliver results but also help shape our engineering and product roadmaps. Change the world by accepting this Software Development Engineer role today!



Key job responsibilities
Contribute to the technical direction of our offerings and solutions
Work with many different technologies across the sponsored products organization.
Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive design and bring innovative products and services to market.
Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
Build distributed storage index and query systems that are scalable fault-tolerant low cost and easy to manage/use.
Design code troubleshoot and support scalable machine-learning pipelines and online serving systems.
Work closely with applied scientists to optimize the performance of machine-learning models and infrastructure and implement end-to-end solutions.


- 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

- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.