Senior Software Development Engineer, Sponsored Products and Brands Off-Search

The Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through advanced generative AI technologies revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across 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 youre energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of whats possible with AI join us in shaping the future of advertising.

Key job responsibilities
This role will be critical in redesigning how ads contribute to a personalized relevant and inspirational shopping experience with the customer value proposition at the forefront. Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Design develop and operate large-scale distributed systems for Sponsored Products and Brands advertising.
- Build and optimize data pipelines and services to improve ad retrieval allocation and recommendations.
- Apply Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to deliver more relevant personalized ad and shopping experiences.
- Collaborate with applied scientists product managers and other engineers to define and deliver customer-focused solutions.
- Write high-quality maintainable code and participate in design and code reviews.
- Drive operational excellence through monitoring automation and continuous improvement.

A day in the life
As a Software Development Engineer on the Sponsored Products and Brands Off-Search team you will help build hyper-scale online systems offline data pipelines and machine learning infrastructureleveraging Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to transform advertising and shopping experiences. You will have the opportunity to transform core areas such as ad retrieval ad allocation whole-page relevance and differentiated recommendations by designing and delivering high-quality architecturally sound systems aligned with business needs. With the support of GenAI you will design globally scalable solutions that evolve in the right long-term direction while delivering iterative value to customers. This is a rare opportunity to redefine how ads are retrieved allocated and experiencedelevating them into personalized contextually aware and inspiring parts of the customer journey. If you are passionate about applying frontier AI to solve real-world problems at massive scale and impact this is your chance to define the next chapter of advertising engineering.

About the team
The Off-Search team within Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) is focused on building delightful ad experiences across various surfaces beyond Search on Amazonsuch as product detail pages the homepage and store-in-store pagesto drive monetization. Our vision is to deliver highly personalized context-aware advertising that adapts to individual shopper preferences scales across diverse page types remains relevant to seasonal and event-driven moments and integrates seamlessly with organic recommendations such as new arrivals basket-building content and fast-delivery options. To execute this vision we work in close partnership with Stores stakeholders to lead the expansion and growth of SPB across Amazon-owned and -operated pages beyond Search. We operate full stackfrom backend ads-retail edge services ads retrieval and ad auctions to shopper-facing experiencesall designed to deliver meaningful value.

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- 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
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

- 8 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Masters degree in computer science or equivalent
- Knowledge of one or more ML Frameworks (e.g. PyTorch TensorFlow) and ML methods including NLP models (BERT GPT-2/3) computer vision-based models (object detection image recognition) and text-based models (Seq2Seq Topic modeling)
- Experience building large-scale machine learning models and infrastructure for online recommendation ads ranking personalization or search
- Experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings
- Experience in driving end to end delivery and communicating results to senior leadership

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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.