Sr Software Development Engineer, Sponsored Products Autonomous SP

Amazon is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for their Sponsored Products team, focusing on building world-class advertising products. This role is part of Amazon's strategic investment in building a world-class advertising business, responsible for delivering self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales.

The position involves working with APIs and building features that drive performance at scale. You'll be designing highly scalable APIs and implementing controls to help partners scale their operations. The role requires working with vast amounts of data, deploying advanced analytics, and implementing machine learning algorithms to automate advertisers' marketing strategies.

As a senior engineer, you'll be responsible for building robust prediction services and recommendation engines that handle massive throughput under tight latency constraints. You'll work on optimizing runtime machine learning models and be part of a fast-growing team with high business focus.

The ideal candidate should be highly analytical, team-focused, and comfortable with ambiguity. You'll own the technical vision and direction, mentor team members, collaborate on product direction, and be responsible for systems that reach hundreds of millions of customers worldwide.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to make a significant impact in advertising technology while working with cutting-edge systems at scale. The role offers competitive compensation, including base pay ranging from $151,300 to $261,500 depending on location, plus equity and additional benefits.

Key responsibilities include technical leadership, team building, product collaboration, and ensuring operational excellence. The position requires strong system design skills, experience with large-scale distributed systems, and the ability to mentor and grow other engineers.