Amazon
Sr. Software Development Engineer, Guidance & Personalization
$185K–$250K
New York, NY +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 30, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY
SEATTLE, WA - Experience
- 5+ years for each of the stated software development, programming, and design/architecture qualifications; leadership experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Builds scalable, real-time personalization and guidance systems for advertisers, with explainable AI recommendations and agent-driven workflows.
What you'll do
- Build systems that model advertiser behavior, goals, and preferences and support real-time recommendations at scale.
- Develop infrastructure for auditable, explainable AI decisions and coordination among specialized agents.
- Build high-volume event-driven pipelines that feed ML models and recommendation systems.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leader of an engineering team.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
cloud infrastructure, microservices, event streaming, model serving, feature stores, A/B testing frameworks, large language models, APIs
AI focus
Production AI-driven advertising systems, including ML inference, explainable recommendations, and LLM-powered agents.
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