About the Role

This Software Development Engineer II role focuses on building scalable ad serving systems using AI/ML technologies for Amazon's Sponsored Products. The engineer will design high-volume distributed systems, optimize machine learning models, and mentor junior engineers while working on innovations in NLP, deep learning, and real-time ML serving.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive technical solutions using technologies like deep learning, AWS, Auto ML, and real-time ML serving systems
• Design, develop, and productionize software for scalable offline ML pipelines and online serving components
• Work with applied scientists to optimize ML model performance and improve team productivity
• Build services handling billions of requests daily with millisecond latency and strict SLA requirements
• Mentor junior engineers and guide them to deliver high-impact products and services

Required Skills & Qualifications

Must Have:

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship 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 natural language processing
• Experience driving innovation directly with Product Management and Engineering

Benefits & Perks

• Medical benefits
• Financial benefits
• Equity and sign-on payments (position dependent)
• Workplace accommodations for disabilities