Software Development Engineer, Sponsored Products and Brands - Advertiser Controls

Amazon • New York, NY

23h

About The Position

Amazon's Sponsored Products and Brands division is building the next generation
of AI-powered advertiser controls that help millions of advertisers optimize
their campaigns. We're looking for a Software Development Engineer II to join
our Advertiser Controls team, where you'll design and build the bidding controls
and recommendations that directly impact how advertisers create, optimize, and
grow their business on Amazon.

In this role, you'll own the development of three critical platform
capabilities. First, you will build the AI engineering infrastructure that
enables our bidding systems—developing systems for model fine-tuning,
reinforcement learning, model inferencing and preference optimization, while
creating evaluation frameworks that ensure safety, reliability, and trust at
scale. Second, you will interface agentic architectures that allow AI systems to
work together seamlessly, including agent-to-agent communication protocols for
discovery, negotiation, and task handoff, lifecycle management for agent
sessions, and state management frameworks that persist context across multi-step
workflows. Third, you will design and build experimentation systems that support
multiple concurrent online experiments, accelerating our team's ability to test
new bidding strategies and learn from real advertiser behavior.

As an SDE2, you'll work as an autonomous contributor. You will work backwards
from advertiser needs—collaborating with product managers, scientists, and other
engineers to understand business problems, then translating those into technical
solutions. While you'll make independent decisions on implementation, you'll
seek guidance from senior engineers and principals when facing complex
architectural tradeoffs or ambiguous technical challenges where the business
problem is clear but the path forward requires exploration.

The work you do will have direct, visible impact. Your infrastructure will power
the AI systems that help a small business owner optimize their first campaign
and enable enterprise brands to manage millions in ad spend. You'll be building
customer-facing products where your technical decisions translate directly into
advertiser success and the products customers discover on Amazon.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Design and develop the Agentic platform using Gen AI/ML technologies to deliver low-latency, secure advertiser experiences
• Build scalable systems that process millions of data points and optimize for cost efficiency through resource utilization, token consumption, and memory management
• Develop conversational AI and natural language interactions for advertiser bidding guidance
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI-driven solutions across the advertising ecosystem
• Identify and eliminate root causes of operational issues with permanent fixes; proactively improve team operations, tooling, and processes
• Write high-quality, maintainable code with clear documentation
• Provide meaningful code reviews, mentor engineers, and train new teammates on system architecture and operations

Benefits

• Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level