Senior Software Development Engineer

- 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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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USA, WA, SEATTLE - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually
Amazon Advertising is building a world-class advertising business, delivering self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales of merchandise. We are seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE III) to join the Conversational Ad Experiences (CAX) team within Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB). SPB helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners grow incremental sales through native product advertising on Amazon. The CAX team focuses on sponsored conversational shopping experiences powered by large language models (LLMs), working on multiple "industry-first" projects that are ambiguous and challenging—but offer the opportunity to have a significant impact on both our shoppers and business. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving group with an entrepreneurial spirit, a bias for action, and a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.

Key job responsibilities
- Drive major product and engineering initiatives for conversational ad experiences across Amazon Store and Alexa+ surfaces
- Design, build, and operate large-scale, low-latency distributed systems serving hundreds of millions of Amazon shoppers worldwide
- Develop ad serving infrastructure and data processing pipelines to support LLM-powered conversational shopping experiences
- Collaborate with product and science teams to build end-to-end solutions for sponsored conversational experiences
- Own key pieces of customer-facing functionality, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance at Amazon scale
- Contribute to "industry-first" projects in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment that is growing at an unprecedented rate

About the team
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 Amazon.com 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 you're energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising.