Senior GenAI Advertising Platform Engineer

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon’s Sponsored Products and Brands team is seeking a Sr. Software Development Engineer to join the Global Optimization engineering group.

The role focuses on building scalable, low-latency systems that leverage multilingual and multi-modal GenAI technologies to serve non-US marketplaces from day one, collaborating with scientists and product leaders to deliver real customer value. You’ll partner with Applied Scientists to deploy models into production, drive reliability, and mentor the team

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.

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.

Skills

Software development

Mentorship

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Amazon’s Sponsored Products and Brands team is seeking a Sr. Software Development Engineer to join the Global Optimization engineering group.

The role focuses on building scalable, low-latency systems that leverage multilingual and multi-modal GenAI technologies to serve non-US marketplaces from day one, collaborating with scientists and product leaders to deliver real customer value. You’ll partner with Applied Scientists to deploy models into production, drive reliability, and mentor the team