Software Development Engineer, Search Thematic Advertising Experiences

Amazon

Amazon

Marketing & Communications, Software Engineering

Posted on May 12, 2026

Description

The Sponsored Products and Brands 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 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.

The Search Thematic Advertising Experiences team, within Sponsored Products, is seeking a Software Development Engineer to build scalable, high-performance systems that power natural language
understanding, personalization, and other ML-driven capabilities. In our team, you will have the opportunity to architect and build the services and infrastructure behind new ads experiences that elevate the shopping experience for our hundreds of millions of customers worldwide.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will partner with other talented engineers and scientists to design, build, test, and deploy production systems that serve machine learning models at scale. You will be responsible for translating business and scientific requirements into robust, maintainable software solutions, building APIs and data pipelines, and instrumenting systems to measure how shoppers and advertisers are responding to changes.

We are looking for candidates who thrive in an exciting, fast-paced environment and who have a strong personal interest in learning, building distributed systems, and creating new technologies with high customer impact.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer on the Search Thematic Advertising Experiences team, you will:
- Help merchants, retail vendors and brand owners grow incremental sales of their products on Amazon through native product advertising
- 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 develop models that optimize shopper experience
- Design, build, and operate key pieces of customer facing functionality



About the team
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.

We are a customer-obsessed team of engineers, technologists, product leaders, and scientists. We are focused on continuous exploration of contexts and creatives where advertising delivers value to shoppers and advertisers. We specifically work on new ads experiences globally with the goal of helping shoppers make the most informed purchase decision. We obsess about our customers and we are continuously innovating on their behalf to enrich their shopping experience on Amazon