Software Development Engineer II, Sponsored Products and Brands Marketplace Intelligence

Advertisers will spend tens of billion dollars to leverage Amazon advertising this year to help grow their business. We are looking for exceptional software engineers to build the next generation of tools these advertisers depend on to control their advertising efforts across multiple ad products in the Amazon Advertising portfolio.

This important work requires that we build redundant highly available systems that scale massively to ensure our advertisers can enhance discoverability for all the products they sell online and connect Amazon customers with sellers and selection anywhere in the world. We are increasingly focused on helping our advertisers reach new markets and build a strong brand presence which means we must think globally and be strategic about how we build our software to operate 24 / 7 / 365 in over 20 countries.

The ad serving team is responsible for powering a low latency high scale ad serving workflow for two of Amazons largest Advertising products - Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands. The ad server orchestrates the workflows for the processing and rendering of product and brand ads on all of Amazon pages. A single second on the ad server can usually be attributed to processing 100s of million of ads running greater than 20 machine learning models to determine relevance conversion rates etc per ad and processing tera bytes of cached data to serve these ads to the end customer. This team provides a true balance between platform scale and business requirements ensuring that every change made by a developer directly contributes to business growth.

Our engineering team leverages advanced AI-powered development tools throughout our software lifecycle. We utilize Kiro Cline and Amazon Q for intelligent code generation significantly accelerating our development velocity while maintaining high code quality standards. Our developers also employ agentic AI tools and smart code analyzers that help identify potential performance bottlenecks and optimize critical ad serving pathways.

Our team owns the platform and the data required to serve ads and use technologies like ECS EC2 Lambda SQS ElasticCache S3 Kafka etc to power the platform. State management with object modeling GC tuning and memory optimizations is another key area of focus for the team to drive faster and more optimized ad search results.

Key job responsibilities

Key job responsibilities :

Drive end-to-end engineering projects that have a high degree of ambiguity scale complexity.

Build large scale solutions using latest Gen AI tools along with native integrations with LLMs

Run A / B experiments gather data and perform statistical analysis.

Establish scalable efficient automated processes for large-scale data analysis machine-learning model development model validation and serving.

Recruit SDEs to the team and provide mentorship.

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 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 youre energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of whats possible with AI join us in shaping the future of advertising.

• 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
• 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
• Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience building large-scale machine learning and AI solutions at Internet scale

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300 / year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600 / year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and / or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Key Skills

Client Servicing,Apache,Community Support,FIDIC,Data Analysis

Employment Type : Full-Time

Department / Functional Area : Software Development

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Yearly Salary Salary : 129300 - 223600