Sr. Software Development Engineer, Sponsored Products Global Optimization

The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through industry-leading generative AI technologies revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across and beyond. We are at the forefront of reinventing 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!

Amazon Sponsored Products and Brands is looking for a talented Sr. Software Development Engineer to join the Global Optimization engineering team at the forefront of advertising technology innovation. We are working backwards from emerging markets to reimagine Amazons advertising stack from the ground up building highly scalable low-latency systems that leverage multilingual and multi-modal GenAI technologies (including semantic hash designs LLMs and more) to deliver solutions that scale to non-US marketplaces from day one.

This is your opportunity to be part of a small high-impact team that architects builds and ships production systems powering state-of-the-art solutions that will define the future of digital advertising.

The ideal candidate combines entrepreneurial drive with deep technical expertise thriving in ambiguous fast-moving environments where you define the path forward with minimal structure. Our team regularly goes from ideas on the whiteboard to production-grade systems in weeks.

- Customer Obsession - fuels your passion for building systems that deliver real-world value for millions of advertisers and customers worldwide. You think end-to-end from the scientists notebook to the customers experience.

- You are consistently Right A Lot - when navigating complex technical decisions demonstrating the rare ability to identify architectures and solutions that drive maximum impact with minimal complexity. You cut through ambiguity to find the approach that delivers the most results.

- Your systems experience goes beyond textbook knowledge you have successfully designed and operated large-scale distributed systems at Amazon scale understanding both the promise and practical challenges of deploying ML-powered services in production (model serving A/B experimentation infrastructure real-time feature computation etc.).

- Youre not just an engineer youre a builder - who sees the bigger picture. You partner deeply with scientists and product leaders translate ambiguous business problems into crisp technical solutions and know how to make it all reality.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and build at scale Own the end-to-end architecture of distributed systems that serve millions of advertisers across global marketplaces handling high-throughput low-latency workloads at Amazon scale.

- Bring GenAI to production Partner closely with Applied Scientists to take models from prototype to production building robust serving infrastructure training pipelines feature stores and evaluation frameworks that turn research breakthroughs into real customer value.

- Invent from the ground up Help reimagine the advertising technology stack for international markets designing systems that are multilingual multi-modal and globally scalable by default.

- Drive operational excellence Establish best practices for reliability observability and deployment ensuring our systems maintain the highest bar for availability and performance.

- Raise the bar Mentor engineers across the team lead design reviews and shape our engineering culture as we 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

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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 NY New York - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually
USA WA SEATTLE - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually