Senior Software Development Engineer, Sponsored Products and Brands - Marketplace Intelligence

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer for the Sponsored Products Supply team. Sponsored Products helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners grow incremental sales of their products on Amazon through native product advertising. The Sponsored Products Supply team works on complex engineering, optimization, econometric, and user-experience problems in order to deliver relevant product ads on Amazon search pages worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the technical vision and strategy for major product and engineering initiatives that span multiple teams and organizations.
• Architect and lead the development of large-scale, low-latency distributed systems, ML infrastructure, and data processing pipelines that serve as foundational platforms for teams across the Sponsored Products organization.
• Establish deep partnerships with science, product, and engineering teams across Ads and Retail, driving alignment on technical direction and influencing roadmaps beyond your immediate team.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives that require coordinating deliverables across multiple teams, resolving ambiguity, and ensuring cohesive end-to-end solutions.
• Mentor engineers within and outside your team, raising the technical bar through design reviews, operational excellence standards, and engineering best practices.
• Define system architectures that balance short-term delivery with long-term scalability, identify opportunities to consolidate efforts across teams, and drive org-wide technical decisions.
• Partner closely with our science team and adjacent advertising teams to develop models and systems that optimize shopper experience at scale, ensuring seamless integration across service boundaries.

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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Skills

• Full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

Benefits

Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Pay

Base salary range for this position is listed below. USA, NY, New York - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

Schedule

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