Software Development Engineer, Amazon

Amazon Ads Demand Tech, Forecasting and Guidance

$158.1-223.6k

Actual salary range is dependent on location. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)

Java

C++

Perl

Mid and Senior level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Be an early applicant

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Be an early applicant

$158.1-223.6k

Actual salary range is dependent on location. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)

Java

C++

Perl

Mid and Senior level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Company mission

To be Earth's most customer-centric company.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

The ideal candidate demonstrates strong technical skills in distributed systems, possesses knowledge of both front-end and back-end technologies, and excels at collaborating across teams. You'll balance technical excellence with business acumen, partnering across organizations to deliver solutions that drive revenue growth
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
1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Desirable

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

What the job involves

The Forecasting Insights and Guidance (FIG) team within Amazon Ads Demand Tech is seeking a software engineer to drive industry-leading campaign forecasting and recommendation solutions. This role sits at the intersection of ads technology (Agentic LLM), science, product, UI/UX, and business strategy, offering a unique opportunity to shape the future of forecasting and recommendations at scale
You will design, build, and experiment with solutions that bridge forecasting and guidance algorithms with scalable, user-centric applications. Your work will ensure technical architecture supports accurate predictions while delivering actionable insights through intuitive interfaces
This role offers the opportunity to lead complex technical initiatives, mentor team members, and make a significant impact on Amazon's advertising platform at scale
Design and implement scalable APIs and microservices for real-time forecasting and recommendations
Build Agentic LLM applications that visualize data and deliver intuitive user experiences
Collaborate with scientists to translate statistical models and algorithms into production-ready systems
Develop efficient data pipelines and storage solutions to process large-scale advertising campaign data
Drive system performance improvements and operational excellence through monitoring, optimization, and best practices

Our take

Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.

More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.

Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

16% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Company

Company HQ

South Lake Union, Seattle, WA

Leadership

Jeff Bezos

(Founder & Executive Chairman)

Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.

Andy Jassy

(President & CEO)

Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.

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