Software Development Engineer, Forecasting Insights and Guidance

The Demand Forecasting and Guidance (DFG) team within Amazon Ads Demand Tech is seeking a software engineer to drive industry-leading campaign forecasting and recommendation solutions. This role sits at the intersection of ads technology (Agentic LLM) science product UI/UX and business strategy offering a unique opportunity to shape the future of forecasting and recommendations at scale.

You will design build and experiment with solutions that bridge forecasting and guidance algorithms with scalable user-centric applications. Your work will ensure technical architecture supports accurate predictions while delivering actionable insights through intuitive interfaces.

The ideal candidate demonstrates strong technical skills in distributed systems possesses knowledge of both front-end and back-end technologies and excels at collaborating across teams. Youll balance technical excellence with business acumen partnering across organizations to deliver solutions that drive revenue growth.

This role offers the opportunity to lead complex technical initiatives mentor team members and make a significant impact on Amazons advertising platform at scale.


Key job responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable APIs and microservices for real-time forecasting and recommendations
- Develop efficient data pipelines and storage solutions to process large-scale advertising campaign data
- Collaborate with scientists to translate statistical models and algorithms into production-ready systems
- Participate in the teams on-call rotation actively monitor system health respond to operational events and drive continuous improvements to reduce operational burden through runbook enhancements and ticket triage.
- Contribute to team velocity goals by maintaining a healthy development pipeline removing blockers and ensuring timely delivery of features and fixes in alignment with organizational commitments.
- Own and optimize infrastructure costs by identifying and eliminating waste right-sizing resources and contributing to cost reduction goals without compromising reliability or performance.
- Drive timely infrastructure upgrades including hardware refreshes software version updates and dependency migrations to ensure systems remain current supportable and performant.
- Ensure systems and services meet security and compliance standards by remediating vulnerabilities and adhering to organizational security policies and audit requirements.
- Build Agentic solutions to automate triage process patch and EOL management cost anomaly detection ticket deflection and security compliance remediation to significantly reduce operational toil and keep systems healthy at scale.




About the team
Our team provides customer facing forecasting and recommendations for self-service advertising customers throughout their campaign lifecycle journey. Our products educate customers on budget allocation opportunities effective campaign setup and optimizations. Accurate forecasting is critical to many growth initiatives across the business.

- 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. As a total compensation company Amazons package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription basic life & AD&D insurance) Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) paid time off and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN ON Toronto - 114800.00 - 191800.00 CAD annually