Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Ads Demand Tech, Forecasting and Guidance

Amazon Ads is growing rapidly expanding into Live events Streaming TV and agentic solutions for advertisers and the Amazon Ads Demand Tech: Forecasting Insights and Guidance team needs a Software Development Engineer to help build the systems behind it this role you will design and deliver campaign forecasting and recommendation services that process petabyte-scale data power real-time advertiser decisions and directly influence how advertising budgets are planned and optimized.

You will write production code in Java Scala Python and TypeScript build and operate large-scale data pipelines and indexing infrastructure on AWS and collaborate with applied scientists to turn forecasting models into reliable performant services. A major focus ahead is scaling the platform for high-throughput agentic workloads and applying AI to accelerate software upgrades and reduce operational recovery times. If you enjoy working across the full software lifecycle and want your work to have a measurable impact on a business growing at 26% year over year this is a compelling time to join.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable APIs and microservices that serve real-time forecasting and recommendation results to advertising customers with a near-term focus on scaling throughput for agentic workloads
- Build and maintain backend data pipelines on EMR Spark and S3 that process petabyte-scale datasets generate search indexes and keep daily data fresh and accurate
- Collaborate with applied scientists and product teams to translate time-series forecasting models and supply-demand algorithms into production-ready well-tested systems
- Apply AI-driven approaches to accelerate platform upgrades reduce tech debt and lower mean time to resolution for operational issues
- Mentor engineers on your team through code reviews and design discussions contribute to technical roadmaps and document systems so they can be maintained and extended by others

A day in the life
Your time splits between proactive roadmap-driven feature work and hands-on operational a typical week you might spend mornings writing and reviewing code building a new forecasting endpoint or tuning a Spark indexing job then shift to monitoring deployment pipelines investigating a data-quality anomaly or reviewing dashboards for latency and forecast accuracy. You will regularly join design reviews and cross-team syncs with product UX and science partners. The role operates with significant autonomy: you own your features end to end but you are never working in isolation peer reviews on-call collaboration and mentoring newer engineers are woven into the rhythm of the week.

About the team
Amazon Ads Demand Tech: Forecasting Insights and Guidance builds customer-facing forecasting and recommendation products that guide self-service advertising customers throughout their campaign lifecycle. Our systems help advertisers understand budget allocation opportunities plan effective campaigns and optimize performance. With Amazon Ads expanding into Live events Streaming TV and agentic advertiser solutions accurate forecasting is becoming even more critical and our team is at the center of that growth. Looking ahead we are investing in scaling our platform for high-throughput agentic requests using AI to accelerate upgrades across our software stack and reducing operational recovery times. We are an inclusive group of engineers scientists and product managers who value clear documentation shared on-call ownership and continuous improvement of our platform.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 3 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 3 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3 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
- 3 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- 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

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

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 CA Palo Alto - 165200.00 - 223600.00 USD annually
USA NY New York - 158100.00 - 213800.00 USD annually