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, NY, New York - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually
We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer for the Sponsored Products Supply team. Sponsored Products helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners grow incremental sales of their products on Amazon through native product advertising. The Sponsored Products Supply team works on complex engineering, optimization, econometric, and user-experience problems in order to deliver relevant product ads on Amazon search pages world-wide.

As a Senior Engineer on the team, you will own and drive the technical vision and strategy for major product and engineering initiatives that span multiple teams and organizations. You will architect and lead the development of large-scale, low-latency distributed systems, ML infrastructure, and data processing pipelines that serve as foundational platforms for teams across the Sponsored Products organization.

You will establish deep partnerships with science, product, and engineering teams across Ads and Retail, driving alignment on technical direction and influencing roadmaps beyond your immediate team. You will lead cross-functional initiatives that require coordinating deliverables across multiple teams, resolving ambiguity, and ensuring cohesive end-to-end solutions. You will mentor engineers within and outside your team, raising the technical bar through design reviews, operational excellence standards, and engineering best practices.

You will be responsible for defining system architectures that balance short-term delivery with long-term scalability, identifying opportunities to consolidate efforts across teams, and driving org-wide technical decisions. You will partner closely with our science team and adjacent advertising teams to develop models and systems that optimize shopper experience at scale, ensuring seamless integration across service boundaries.

We are just getting started. Come join us as we innovate and launch exciting new products and services in the coming year!

About the team
About Sponsored Products and Brands
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 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.