Software Development Engineer III, Sponsored Products and Brands (Advertising)

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer III for the Sponsored Products and Brands team. You will join the Conversational Ad Experiences group, building large-scale systems and ML-driven workflows to power contextually relevant ads across Amazon properties and third-party publishers.

The role emphasizes design leadership, mentoring, and delivering production-grade solutions that scale to hundreds of millions of shoppers worldwide, in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language.
• Experience leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive major product and engineering initiatives.
• Build large-scale, low-latency distributed systems.
• Develop ML infrastructure and LLM-based AI workflows.
• Partner with science team to implement LLM models in production.
• Contribute to LLMOps.
• Design, build, and operate customer-facing functionality impacting hundreds of millions of shoppers.

Skills

Software development

Mentorship/leadership

Distributed systems

ML/GenAI

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Software Development Engineer III, Sponsored Products and Brands

Job ID: 3192375 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Amazon is building a world-class advertising business that delivers self-service performance advertising products driving merchandise discovery and sales. Our advertising solutions are strategically critical to our retail and marketplace businesses' long-term growth. We serve billions of ad impressions and generate millions of clicks daily while continuously breaking new ground in product innovation. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving group with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With broad latitude to experiment and innovate, the team is experiencing unprecedented growth and continuously exploring new ideas and opportunities.

Key job responsibilities

We're seeking a Software Development Engineer to join our Conversational Ad Experiences (CAX) team within Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB). SPB enables merchants, vendors, and brand owners to drive incremental sales through contextually relevant ads across Amazon properties (Amazon.com, Alexa, etc.) and third-party publishers.

The CAX team specializes in developing sponsored conversational experiences powered by large language models (LLMs). We're pioneering multiple industry-first initiatives that, while complex and ambiguous, offer opportunities to create significant impact for our consumers, advertisers, and the business.

• Drive major product and engineering initiatives
• Build large-scale, low-latency distributed systems
• Develop ML infrastructure and LLM-based AI workflows
• Partner with our science team to implement LLM models in production
• Contribute to LLMOps
• Design, build, and operate customer-facing functionality impacting hundreds of millions of shoppers worldwide

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

• 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
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: ML compilers, production coding agents, GenAI model architecture, model training, neural network optimization, or alternatively applied math.

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

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