Software Development Engineer

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 long-term growth.

The Search Ranking and Interleaving (R&I) team within the Marketplace Intelligence org in SP is responsible for determining which ads to show in Amazon search where to place them how many ads to place and to which customers. This helps shoppers discover new products while helping advertisers put their products in front of the right customers aligning shoppers advertisers and Amazons interests. To do this we apply a broad range of machine learning causal inference reinforcement learning based optimization techniques and LLMs to continuously explore learn and optimize the ranking and allocation of ads on the search page. We are an interdisciplinary team with a focus on customer obsession and inventing and simplifying. Our primary focus is on improving the SP experience in search by gaining a deep understanding of shopper pain points and developing new innovative solutions to address them.

You will be on the Interleaving team. Our mission is to personalize and contextualize SP ad allocation on the search page. We do this by modeling shopper responses to the number placement and quality of ads. We are a data- and hypothesis-driven organization that uses online experimentation simulation causal modeling and online feedback to place ads where theyre useful to shoppers and provide improved discoverability and sales for advertisers. You will be responsible for developing and managing the machine learning modeling infrastructure scalable real-time ML inference solutions in low-latency setting and data transformation and engineering solutions to compute ML model features. This role also needs to continue raising the bar in operational excellence including pro-actively identifying and delivering improvements and dealing with production issues effectively with clarity in communication.


About the team
The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through 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

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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 WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually