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Software Development Engineer II, Sponsored Products Marketplace Intelligence

Amazon, New York, New York, us, 10261


Description

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. As a core product offering within our advertising portfolio, Sponsored Products (SP) helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The SP team's primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth.

We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day. We optimize product placements using a combination of machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) algorithms operating in low latency, high-volume systems. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving, with entrepreneurial drive 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.

We are looking for an Software Engineer to join the Whole-page Advertising Experiences (Waves) team in Marketplace Intelligence with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate to grow Sponsored Products. As an SDE on this team, you will design and build new features to delight our shoppers worldwide. You will partner with scientists and product managers across Amazon in order to solve the biggest customer frustrations and bring new CX features to life. You will have the opportunity to design, run, and analyze A/B experiments that improve the experience of millions of Amazon shoppers while driving quantifiable revenue impact. More importantly, you will have the opportunity to broaden your technical skills in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and product innovation.

Key job responsibilities

Key job responsibilities:

Drive end-to-end engineering projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity.

Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis.

Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving.

Recruit SDEs to the team and provide mentorship.

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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

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.