Software Development Engineer, Sponsored Products Global Optimization

Amazon • New York, NY

4d • Onsite

About The Position

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 Amazon’s 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.

We're 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.

We’re a fast-growing team with a very high focus from business to grow, so there’s lot of opportunities.

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 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 Amazon's 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

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree