Software Development Engineer, Conversational Ads

Position: Software Development Engineer, Conversational Ads Experience
Description

The Conversational Ad Experiences team works on complex engineering, optimization, econometric, and user-experience problems to deliver relevant product ads on Amazon pages worldwide. Our mission is to make Amazon the best-in-class destination for shoppers to discover, engage and build affinity with brands and products, making shopping beautiful and personal. We help advertisers, big or small, engage potential customers during their shopping research and consideration stages with visually appealing, inspiring, and relevant sponsored shopping content.

In doing so, we deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily but are only getting started.

Our team's scope is broad and impactful. We work on distributed Ad serving services with low-latency, high scalability, and availability. These services serve both billions of Amazon shoppers and millions of advertisers worldwide. We're working on key, forward-thinking, and strategic projects across Amazon that impact both architecture and business. Our vision is to make Amazon the best-in-class destination for shoppers to discover, engage, and build affinity with products and brands, making shopping experiences beautiful and personal.

Key job responsibilities

Your role as a software developer will involve creating robust, large-scale services capable of processing millions of requests daily, and resolving complex software issues with technologies like LLMs. You will partner with various engineering, science, and business teams to design, implement and launch personalized ad experiences. You'll collaborate with senior Software Development Engineers and Principal Engineers, gaining knowledge and advancing your career while positively affecting millions of customers.

About the team

The Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across  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

- 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

- 4+ 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

- Knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals, including transformer architecture, training/inference life cycles, and optimization techniques

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

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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.

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USA, WA, SEATTLE -  -  USD annually