Software development engineer Jobs in Toronto, ON

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Amazon's advertising portfolio helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!

The Creative X org within Amazon Advertising aims to democratize access to high-quality creative assets, including copy, images and video, by building and productizing generative AI-driven tools for advertisers. We are investing in latent-diffusion and DiT models, LLMs, computer vision, reinforcement learning, and image + video synthesis. The solutions we develop will be deployed for use by self-service advertisers and agencies, as well as available to premium brands that advertise on Amazon.

We are seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer who is adept at a variety of skills, that enable the productization of Generative AI experiences for advertising at scale.

Every member of the team is expected to build customer (advertiser) facing features, contribute to the collaborative spirit within the team, productize, deploy at scale, and bring innovative production-grade experiences to raise the bar within the team.

The ideal candidate combines solid full-stack coding expertise with an understanding of AI agent concepts including context management, memory systems, and how Large Language Models (LLMs) work. You must be passionate about quality, consistency, maintainability, performance, and security. You'll need to be a fast learner who stays current with rapidly evolving AI technologies, comfortable with ambiguity, and willing to challenge the status quo. This position requires collaboration with software engineers, product managers, technical program managers, and partner teams across Amazon Advertising.


Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer,

- you will solve technical challenges and act as a mentor to other junior engineers.
- Given that this is an early-stage initiative, you'll play an active role in translating business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables and build quick prototypes or proofs of concept in partnership with other technology leaders within the team.
- You will help invent new features, design, develop and deploy highly scalable and reliable distributed services.
- You will work with a variety of core languages (primarily Java and Python) and technologies (AWS).
- You will work closely with Product Managers, Engineers and Applied Scientists.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

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