Software Development Engineer, Conversational Ads Experience

AI in this role

Amazon is building a world class advertising business and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales of merchandise. Our products are strategically important to our retail and marketplace businesses, driving long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative group with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate with a seemingly endless range of new ideas and opportunities.

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. You'll partner with product managers, applied scientists, and engineers to drive product and engineering initiatives — building large-scale, low-latency distributed systems and integrating sponsored prompt experiences for shoppers and advertisers. These are industry-first projects: ambiguous, challenging, and high-impact.

Key job responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate large-scale, low-latency distributed systems that power conversational ad experiences for hundreds of millions of Amazon shoppers
- Build and integrate sponsored prompt experiences for shoppers and advertisers, leveraging LLMs to deliver relevant, personalized shopping content
- Partner with product managers, applied scientists, and engineers to drive product and engineering initiatives end to end
- Tackle challenging, novel situations and collaborate with multiple technical teams across Amazon
- Write high-quality, maintainable code and participate in design and code reviews
- Drive operational excellence through monitoring, automation, and continuous improvement

About the team
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.

Basic qualifications

- 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

Preferred qualifications

- 3+ 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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, NY, New York - 158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Software Development Engineer, Conversational Ads Experience at Amazon rates 22 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.