Amazon's Sponsored Products and Brands division is building the next generation
of AI-powered bidding systems that help millions of advertisers optimize their
campaigns. We're looking for a Software Development Engineer II to join our
Agentic Bidding Platform team, where you'll design and build the bidding
controls and recommendations that directly impact how advertisers create,
optimize, and grow their business on Amazon.
In this role, you'll own the development of three critical platform
capabilities. First, you will build the AI engineering infrastructure that
enables our bidding systems—developing systems for model fine-tuning,
reinforcement learning, and preference optimization, while creating evaluation
frameworks that ensure safety, reliability, and trust at scale. Second, you will
interface agentic architectures that allow AI systems to work together
seamlessly, including agent-to-agent communication protocols for discovery,
negotiation, and task handoff, lifecycle management for agent sessions, and
state management frameworks that persist context across multi-step workflows.
Third, you will design and build experimentation systems that support multiple
concurrent online experiments, accelerating our team's ability to test new
bidding strategies and learn from real advertiser behavior.
As an SDE2, you'll work as an autonomous contributor. You will work backwards
from advertiser needs—collaborating with product managers, scientists, and other
engineers to understand business problems, then translating those into technical
solutions. While you'll make independent decisions on implementation, you'll
seek guidance from senior engineers and principals when facing complex
architectural tradeoffs or ambiguous technical challenges where the business
problem is clear but the path forward requires exploration.
The work you do will have direct, visible impact. Your infrastructure will power
the AI systems that help a small business owner optimize their first campaign
and enable enterprise brands to manage millions in ad spend. You'll be building
customer-facing products where your technical decisions translate directly into
advertiser success and the products customers discover on Amazon.
Key job responsibilities
- Design and develop the Agentic Bidding platform using Gen AI/ML technologies
to deliver low-latency, secure advertiser experiences
- Build scalable systems that process millions of data points and optimize for
cost efficiency through resource utilization, token consumption, and memory
management
- Develop conversational AI and natural language interactions for advertiser
bidding guidance
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI-driven solutions
across the advertising ecosystem
- Identify and eliminate root causes of operational issues with permanent fixes;
proactively improve team operations, tooling, and processes
- Write high-quality, maintainable code with clear documentation
- Provide meaningful code reviews, mentor engineers, and train new teammates on
system architecture and operations
A day in the life
As a Software Engineer on the Agentic Bidding Platform team you will be filled
with collaborative problem-solving, innovative technology development, and
strategic thinking. You'll work alongside expert applied scientists, software
engineers and product managers, exploring creative solutions to complex
advertising challenges and developing sophisticated machine learning and AI
models that transform how advertisers connect with shoppers.
About the team
The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the
advertising landscape through latest generative AI technologies, revolutionizing
how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across
Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising
experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform
every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to
performance analysis and customer insights. We are a passionate group of
innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies
that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and
strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving complex challenges
and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the
future of advertising.
Amazon matches advertisers with shoppers through real-time auctions where
advertisers bid to show ads based on what shoppers are currently browsing or
searching for. More than 1.5 million Sponsored Products and Brands advertisers
use bids to value the true price they want to pay to win an impression for their
campaign. The Agentic Bidding Platform (ABP), provides these advertisers with
suggested bid value, bidding controls to boost bids and performance estimates
for their ad campaigns. Our vision is to improve advertiser experience, through
guided bidding controls, to drive more conversions and improve key advertiser
metrics. We're building latest AI solutions that empower advertisers to reach
the right shoppers at the right time. Our team combines machine learning with
deep shopping insights to create performant bidding tools that drive remarkable
results. We have the freedom to innovate and experiment in this rapidly growing
space, making a real impact on millions of advertisers and shoppers. If you're
excited about shaping the future of e-commerce advertising through advanced
technology, this is your opportunity to make a difference at scale.
Curious about our advertising solutions? Discover more about Sponsored Products
and Sponsored Brands to see how we’re helping businesses grow on Amazon.com and
beyond!
Basic Qualifications: - 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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Experience with AI/ML technologies Preferred Qualifications: - 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
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