Software Dev Engineer III, Conversational Ads Experiences

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

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.

We are looking for an experienced software dev engineer for the Conversational
Ad Experiences (CAX) team within Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB). SPB helps
merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners grow incremental sales of their
products on Amazon through native product advertising. The CAX team focuses on
sponsored conversational shopping experiences powered by large language models
(LLMs). The team is working on multiple 'industry first' projects which are
ambiguous and challenging, but they offer the opportunity to have a significant
impact on both our shoppers and business. As an engineer on the team, you will
drive major product and engineering initiatives, build large-scale, low-latency
distributed systems, build ML infrastructure and data processing pipelines. You
will partner with our science team to implement LLM models in production, and
also contribute to LLMOps. You will be responsible for designing, building, and
operating key pieces of customer facing functionality impacting hundreds of millions of Amazon shoppers worldwide.

As a senior SDE, you will be playing a multi-faceted role, with the scope and
opportunity to not only solve unsolved problems at Amazon scale but also to
influence business outcomes, drive collaborations and attract top-tier talent.
This role combines engineering leadership, organizational ability, technical
strength, product focus, and business understanding.

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.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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
• Experience with machine learning (ML) tools and methods

Responsibilities

• drive major product and engineering initiatives
• build large-scale, low-latency distributed systems
• build ML infrastructure and data processing pipelines
• partner with our science team to implement LLM models in production
• contribute to LLMOps
• designing, building, and operating key pieces of customer facing functionality impacting hundreds of millions of Amazon shoppers worldwide
• influence business outcomes
• drive collaborations
• attract top-tier talent

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level