Software Development Engineer, Advertising Products and Tech

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.
- 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 you will help build hyper-scale online systems offline data pipelines and machine learning infrastructureleveraging GenAI and 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.

- 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

- 3 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

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company Amazons package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription basic life & AD&D insurance) Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) paid time off and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN ON Toronto - 114800.00 - 191800.00 CAD annually