Software Development Engineer

About the role

Build sponsored conversational shopping experiences powered by large language models - customer-facing functionality that reaches hundreds of millions of Amazon shoppers worldwide. You'll design and deliver large-scale, low-latency distributed systems and ML infrastructure that shape how businesses connect with customers through conversational AI in advertising.

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 partner with the science team to bring LLM models into production and contribute to LLMOps, and build the data processing pipelines that power it all. These are greenfield problems where you'll help shape the technical approach as the product grows.

Key job responsibilities

• Design and develop conversational ad experiences on the Search page, delivering customer-facing features end to end from design through production
• Build large-scale, low-latency distributed systems and ML infrastructure that power LLM-driven advertising experiences in production
• Partner with the science team to bring LLM models into production and contribute to LLMOps - supporting how models are deployed, monitored, and improved
• Develop new approaches to conversational AI and natural language interactions in advertising, evaluating emerging technologies and bringing them into production
• Collaborate 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
• Participate in design and code reviews, mentor peers, and help raise the engineering quality bar across the team

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
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design 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

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

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.

• USA, CA, Palo Alto - 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually
• USA, NY, New York - 158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, SEATTLE - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually