About the Role

The Software Development Engineer II will build and optimize high-scale, low-latency distributed systems for Amazon's Sponsored Products advertising platform. This role involves driving technical solutions, working with machine learning technologies, and mentoring junior engineers to deliver impactful products.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive technical solutions using technologies like deep learning, AWS, and Auto ML
• Design and develop scalable offline ML pipelines and online serving components
• Work with applied scientists to optimize ML models and improve team productivity
• Build services handling billions of requests daily with millisecond latency
• Mentor junior engineers and guide high-impact product delivery

Required Skills & Qualifications

Must Have:

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience for new and existing systems
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Experience building complex software systems successfully delivered to customers

Nice to Have:

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics, or NLP
• Experience with LLM and prompt engineering

Benefits & Perks

• Medical, financial, and other benefits
• Equity and sign-on payments may be provided
• Inclusive culture with workplace accommodations for disabilities