Senior Software Development Engineer, Ads Forecasting and Guidance

At Amazon Advertising, we're working to build the world's best advertising platform, helping brands connect with customers at the right moment with the right message. We're looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Software Development Engineer to join our Amazon Demand-Side Platform (ADSP) team focused on forecasting and guidance systems.

Our team builds sophisticated algorithms and services that predict advertising performance, inventory availability, and pricing dynamics to help advertisers optimize their campaigns and maximize return on investment. We operate at massive scale, processing petabytes of data to deliver real-time forecasts, insights and recommendations.

As a Senior SDE, you will design and build distributed systems that power our guidance and forecasting capabilities, work with scientists to leverage Generative-AI and machine-learning, and develop experiences that make these capabilities accessible across the advertising platform. You'll have the opportunity to influence the technical direction of our systems while mentoring other engineers and contributing to a culture of engineering excellence.

Key job responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance systems
Build data processing pipelines that handle petabytes of advertising data
Work closely with our applied-scientists to deploy machine learning models into production systems
Work closely with our applied-science and product managers to design experiments to improve predictive models and infrastructure
Create and maintain APIs that expose our services to customers and other ADSP services
Develop monitoring and alerting systems to ensure accuracy and system reliability
Collaborate with product managers and other engineering teams to define requirements and deliver features
Participate in on-call rotations to support business-critical forecasting systems
Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

- 5+ 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

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