Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Amazon Advertising Creative X

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazons fastest-growing and most profitable businesses. We operate at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising creating innovative products that help customers discover what they want to buy. Our advertising solutions help brands reach millions of customers on Amazons own sites and apps as well as on millions of TV tablet and mobile devices and other high-quality websites.
Our goal is to help advertisers grow their businesses by starting with the customer and working backward. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks every day constantly innovating to meet the evolving needs of our customers. If youre interested in leading a world-class team with a relentless focus on the customer youve come to the right place!

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities:
As a Sr. Software Development Engineer on our team youll be a key leader in designing and building solutions that deliver an optimal customer experience.
Architect and own the technical strategy for critical features and services making high-impact decisions that influence multiple teams.
Lead the design and implementation of scalable complex distributed systems that handle millions of requests.
Mentor junior engineers and champion engineering best practices including code quality testing automation and operational excellence.
Drive end-to-end machine learning projects from concept to deployment navigating high levels of ambiguity and complexity.
Develop automated processes for large-scale data pipelines model development and serving (MLOps).
Proactively identify and improve team processes seeking opportunities to increase efficiency collaboration and productivity.
Collaborate with product and technical leaders to define roadmaps and deliver solutions that align with business goals.
Partner with cross-functional teams across Amazon Advertising to build integrated solutions.
Leverage the latest ML and code generators (such as Kiro) to optimize the software development lifecycle including design automated testing and documentation.

A day in the life
A typical day as a Sr. Software Development Engineer on our team is a dynamic blend of deep technical work and collaborative problem-solving. It might start with a deep dive into a new ML development project where youre prototyping a new model or optimizing an existing one. You might then transition to designing and building a scalable data pipeline to support a new feature ensuring data quality and efficiency from source to serving. A significant part of your day is dedicated to ensuring operational excellence which includes automating our ML Ops processes and participating in code deployments to bring your innovations to production. Youll actively engage in software testing whether writing unit tests running integration tests or reviewing code to ensure the reliability and security of our systems. Throughout it all youre constantly collaborating with cross-functional partners to define technical roadmaps mentor junior engineers and improve team processes. Your day is ultimately defined by a relentless focus on delivering a seamless high-quality solution that directly impacts our customers experience on a massive scale.

About the team
Our team within the Creative X organization is focused on creating an engaging user experience through content and interactivity enrichment while helping advertisers reach their target audience at scale.

- 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
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle including coding standards software architectures code reviews source control management continuous deployments testing and operational excellence
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- 5 years of building large-scale machine learning and AI solutions at Internet scale experience

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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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 CA Santa Monica - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually