Software Development Engineer II, Sponsored Products Marketplace Intelligence

Amazon Advertising is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to join their Sponsored Products Marketplace Intelligence team. This role is crucial in building and maintaining the next generation of advertising tools that help businesses grow their presence on Amazon's platform.

The position focuses on developing solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, which represent 80% of Amazon's advertisers. You'll be working on systems that need to handle massive scale, operating 24/7/365 across more than 20 countries. The ad serving team you'll join powers low-latency, high-scale workflows for Amazon's largest advertising product - Sponsored Products.

The technical environment is impressive - processing hundreds of millions of ads per second, running over 20 machine learning models for relevance and conversion rate calculations, and managing terabytes of cached data. You'll work with various AWS technologies including EC2, Fargate, Lambda, SQS, ElasticCache, and S3.

Key aspects of the role include:

• Building redundant, highly available systems at massive scale
• Developing intuitive solutions for advertisers to enhance their product discoverability
• Working on platform optimization, including object modeling, GC tuning, and memory optimizations
• Driving end-to-end engineering projects with high complexity
• Running A/B experiments and performing statistical analysis
• Contributing to recruitment and providing mentorship

This is an excellent opportunity for engineers interested in working at the intersection of advertising technology and large-scale distributed systems. The role offers exposure to cutting-edge technologies while directly impacting Amazon's advertising business growth.

The position comes with competitive compensation ranging from $129,300 to $223,600 based on location, plus equity and comprehensive benefits including medical, financial, and other benefits. Amazon values diversity and provides an inclusive work environment for all employees.