Senior Software Development Engineer

Sr SDE, Amazon India Advertising

If you are excited by the opportunity to build highly innovative, scalable, high-performance and low latency solutions for digital advertisement — leveraging AI and machine learning across the full development lifecycle — this may be the right career move for you. Be part of an innovative and passionate team, responsible for building a successful, sustainable and strategic international business for Amazon, from the ground up.





Key job responsibilities
As a Sr Software Engineer on the team:

You will get an opportunity to work on building large-scale machine-learning infrastructure for online recommendation, ads ranking, personalization, and search — including designing, training, evaluating, and deploying ML/AI models end-to-end.

You will leverage AI-assisted development tools and practices (e.g., code generation, automated testing, AI-powered code review) to accelerate engineering velocity and code quality.

You will work on Big Data technologies such as AWS, Spark, Hive, Lucene/SOLR, Elasticsearch, and modern AI/ML frameworks and pipelines.

You will drive appropriate technology choices for the business — including evaluating and integrating generative AI, LLMs, and foundation models — leading the way for continuous innovation and shaping the future of India Advertising.

You will be fluent in the AI coding lifecycle: from data preparation, prompt engineering, and model fine-tuning through to responsible AI practices, model monitoring, and iterative improvement in production.

You will follow the technical direction of our offerings and solutions, working with many different technologies across the India Advertising organization.

You will code, troubleshoot, and support high volume and low latency distributed systems. What you create is also what you own.

You will participate in implementing key functional areas of the customer experience, including website applications, platform services, and AI-powered features.

You will work with the business team and project managers to convert functional requirements into technical features, identifying opportunities to apply AI/ML for smarter solutions.

You will own operating our products, driving excellence in feature stability, performance, flexibility, and responsible AI governance.

Basic 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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

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Experience Level

Senior Level