Senior Software Development Engineer, Conversational Ad Experiences

Amazon is hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer, Conversational Ad Experiences in Seattle, United States. It pays $193k-$262k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.

AI in this role

Own the architectural direction for sponsored conversational shopping experiences powered by large language models — designing customer-facing functionality that impacts hundreds of millions of Amazon shoppers worldwide. You'll pioneer industry-first approaches to conversational AI in advertising, building large-scale, low-latency distributed systems and ML infrastructure that shape the future of how businesses connect with customers on Amazon.

The Conversational Ad Experiences (CAX) team within Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) focuses on LLM-powered sponsored shopping experiences that help merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners grow incremental sales through native product advertising. The team is working on multiple industry-first projects — ambiguous, challenging, and high-impact. You'll drive major product and engineering initiatives, partner with the science team to implement LLM models in production and contribute to LLMOps, and build the data processing pipelines that power it all. These are greenfield problems where you'll set the technical direction and establish the engineering practices that scale as the product grows.

Key job responsibilities
- Own the architectural direction for conversational ad experiences on the Search page, making foundational technical decisions that shape the product long-term
- Build large-scale, low-latency distributed systems and ML infrastructure that power LLM-driven advertising experiences in production
- Partner with the science team to implement LLM models in production and contribute to LLMOps — driving the technical strategy for how models are deployed, monitored, and improved
- Pioneer new approaches to conversational AI and natural language interactions in advertising, evaluating and adopting emerging technologies
- Drive cross-functional collaboration across engineering, science, and product teams to integrate AI-driven solutions across the advertising ecosystem
- Design and operate scalable systems that deliver personalized ad experiences to hundreds of millions of shoppers
- Mentor engineers, establish engineering best practices, and raise the technical bar across the team

About the team
The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through 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.

Basic qualifications

- 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

Preferred qualifications

- 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

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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Palo Alto - 193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually
USA, NY, New York - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Senior Software Development Engineer, Conversational Ad Experiences at Amazon rates 5 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Open the description and count.

Key facts

Senior Software Development Engineer, Conversational Ad Experiences is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The listed salary is $193k-$262k a year.
The role is based in US, WA, Seattle.
The job was posted on October 16, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
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