Sr. Software Development Engineer, Sponsored Products and Brands
About the role
The Off-Search team within Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) is focused on building delightful ad experiences across various surfaces beyond Search on Amazon—such as product detail pages, the homepage, and store-in-store pages—to drive monetization. Our vision is to deliver highly personalized, context-aware advertising that adapts to individual shopper preferences, scales across diverse page types, remains relevant to seasonal and event-driven moments, and integrates seamlessly with organic recommendations such as new arrivals, basket-building content, and fast-delivery options. To execute this vision, we work in close partnership with Stores stakeholders to lead the expansion and growth of SPB across Amazon-owned and -operated pages beyond Search.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and operate large-scale distributed systems for Sponsored Products and Brands advertising.
- Build and optimize data pipelines and services to improve ad retrieval, allocation, and recommendations.
- Apply Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to deliver more relevant, personalized ad and shopping experiences.
- Collaborate with applied scientists, product managers, and other engineers to define and deliver customer-focused solutions.
- Write high-quality, maintainable code and participate in design and code reviews.
- Drive operational excellence through monitoring, automation, and continuous improvement.
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
- Knowledge of Python and/or C++ programming
- Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent