Software Development Engineer - Sponsored Products Demand Utilization Entity Sourcing Delivery

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazons fastest growing and most profitable businesses. As a core product offering within our advertising portfolio Sponsored Products (SP) helps merchants retail vendors and brand owners succeed via native advertising which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The SP teams 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 longterm growth.

We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day. We optimize product placements using a combination of machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) algorithms operating in low latency highvolume systems. We are highly motivated collaborative and funloving with entrepreneurial drive and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.

The SP Demand Utilization Entity Sourcing Delivery team owns Ads Searching Selection and Ads matching systems that involve high throughput low latency Search architecture. As a machine learning software engineer you will be part of team that owns services to handle billions of requests per day while maintaining response latencies in milliseconds and meeting strict SLA requirements. It is quite routine for our systems to operate on massive datasets using distributed frameworks. You will design and code troubleshoot and support high volume and low latency distributed systems. The solutions you create would drive step increases in coverage of sponsored ads across the retail website and ensure relevant ads are served to Amazons customers. This role will provide exposure to advanced engineering solutions in product search information retrieval natural language processing (NLP) deep learning massively scale application architecture.

In addition to being a strongly motivated engineer you will also be responsible for mentoring junior engineers and guiding them to deliver high impacting products and services for Amazon customers and sellers.

Why you love this opportunity:
Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of selfservice performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales.
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 are breaking fresh ground to create worldclass products.
We are highly motivated collaborative and funloving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action.
With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.












3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Masters degree in computer science or equivalent
3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
3 years of building largescale machinelearning infrastructure for online recommendation ads ranking personalization or search experience

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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 jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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.