Sr. Software Development Engineer, Amazon Demand Side Platform, Forecasting

Amazon Advertising is dedicated to driving measurable outcomes for brand advertisers, agencies, authors, and entrepreneurs. Our ad solutions-including sponsored, display, video, and custom ads-leverage Amazon’s innovations and insights to find, attract, and engage intended audiences throughout their daily journeys. With a range of flexible pricing and buying models, including self-service, managed service, and programmatic ad buying, these solutions help businesses build brand awareness, increase product sales, and more., Own backend data pipelines, indexing systems and service & API layer application support.

• Work closely with a group of highly talented and motivated software and data science engineers who build systems and models used to analyze petabytes of data
• Build systems and models to analyze supply and demand side of our advertising business and devise optimization methods.
• Work on analyzing exchange bidding behavior, time series modeling, optimal inventory allocation and many other exciting problems posed by a advertising business
• Invent ways to overcome technical limitations and enable new forms of analyses that drive key business decisions
• Investigate new technologies and champion adoption within the team
• Work on a platform that spans Hadoop, Map/Reduce, Pig, FastBit, Redshift, and S3 using programming languages such as Java, C++ and Python
• Mentor junior team members
• Directly participate in setting the vision and objectives for strategic Amazon goals, in alignment with business needs and ad market dynamics.
• Find new ways to use variety of Amazon’s data sets to help one of the fastest growing businesses within Amazon

We are looking for a Senior Software Developer with a passion for dealing with internet scale datasets to work on Amazon’s Analytics, Forecasting and Optimization Platform for advertising. Our platform is used across Amazon by a variety of advertising programs including Display, Video, Mobile and Kindle. Our team builds end-to-end solutions including data pipelines, large scale index data structures, time series models, software services and large scale data visualizations. Our systems are based on a mix of AWS and third-party technologies, using ones that make the best sense in a given scenario., 8+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• 8+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 8+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• 4+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization of model execution
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team, Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience in debugging, profiling, and implementing software engineering best practices in large-scale systems
• Experience with and deep understanding of advertising technologies (i.e., ad server, DSP)

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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Palo Alto - 193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually USA, NY, New York - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually