Software Development Engineer II, Sponsored Products/ Sponsored Brands

Amazon is building a world class advertising business and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales of merchandise. 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 world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving group 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 ideas and opportunities.

Key job responsibilities
We are looking for an experienced software engineer II for the Sponsored Products (SP) Supply team. SP helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners grow incremental sales of their products on Amazon through native product advertising. The SP Supply team focuses on delivering relevant product ads on Amazon search pages world-wide through ad experiences powered by NLP, computer vision, generative AI and shopper understanding models. The team is working on multiple ‘industry first’ projects which are ambiguous and challenging, but they offer the opportunity to have a significant impact on both our shoppers and business. As an engineer on the team, you will drive major product and engineering initiatives, build large-scale, low-latency distributed systems, build ML infrastructure and data processing pipelines. You will partner with our science team to implement LLM models in production, and also contribute to LLMOps. You will be responsible for designing, building, and operating key pieces of customer facing functionality impacting hundreds of millions of Amazon shoppers worldwide.

Basic Qualifications

– 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

Preferred Qualifications

– 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
– Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
– Experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics or natural language processing

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on 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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.