Design highly scalable APIs and build robust prediction services that automate advertisers' marketing strategies — deploying advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms to power recommendation engines that handle massive throughput under tight latency constraints. Your work will directly impact how millions of advertisers grow their sales on Amazon.
Sponsored Products helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising that grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The SP team's 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 are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses, driving long-term growth — we deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day.
As a software engineer you will be responsible for designing highly scalable APIs and implementing controls to help our partners scale. You will have a direct impact on our customers by putting our vast amount of data to work — deploying advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms to automate advertisers' marketing strategies and increase sales. You will build robust predicting services and recommendation engines for solutions that handle massive throughput under tight latency constraints, including optimization of runtime machine learning models. We're a fast-growing team with high business focus, a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, and a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.
Key job responsibilities
- Design and build highly scalable APIs and implement controls that help advertising partners scale
- Build robust prediction services and recommendation engines that handle massive throughput under tight latency constraints
- Deploy and optimize runtime machine learning models and advanced analytics to automate advertiser marketing strategies and increase sales
- Put Amazon's vast data to work — driving advanced analytics and ML algorithms that directly impact customer outcomes
- Own end-to-end delivery of customer-facing features — from design through implementation, deployment, and 24x7 operations
- Collaborate across product, engineering, and business teams to deliver the right solutions for customers
- Drive technical decisions and contribute to system architecture across the organization
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.
Basic Qualifications
- 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
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
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually