Software Development Engineer, Sponsored Products Global Optimization

Amazon Sponsored Products is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to Amazons Selling Partners and key to driving their long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated collaborative and fun-loving team 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.

This position will be part of the Advertiser Growth organization within Sponsored Products (SP). Our team focuses on launching innovative controls that help 1.4MM advertisers create and manage performant SP campaigns to grow their business. We develop recommender systems to help advertisers use these controls effectively and develop state-of-art AI/ML based optimization services to represent our advertisers in the SP marketplace. We strive to improve the ability for advertisers to help shoppers discover relevant products on customer search browse and detail pages.

Were looking for innovative and customer-obsessed professionals who can help us take our products to the next level. We embrace leaders with a startup mentality -- those who seek a disruptive yet clear mission and purpose have an unambiguous owner mindset and are relentlessly obsessed with making connections with customers.

Were a fast-growing team with a very high focus from business to grow so theres lot of opportunities.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and build highly scalable APIs and implement controls to enable partners to scale effectively
- Deploy advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms to automate advertisers marketing strategies and increase sales
- Put Amazons vast amount of data to work delivering direct impact to customers and advertisers
- Build robust prediction services and recommendation engines capable of handling massive throughput under tight latency constraints
- Optimize runtime machine learning models for high-performance low-latency production environments
- Develop solutions that bridge data engineering ML and systems design to drive advertiser success


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
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design 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 NY New York - 158100.00 - 213800.00 USD annually