Software Development Engineer II, SPB Advertiser Guidance

4 days ago


Palo Alto, California, United States Amazon Full time

Description
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to help build and scale the infrastructure powering Amazon's next-generation agentic advertiser guidance framework. In this role, you will design and implement core components of the agent execution engine, evaluation pipelines, and model tuning infrastructure that enable agents to reason, plan, and act across complex advertiser workflows. You will work closely with senior engineers and applied scientists to translate research prototypes into robust, high-performance production systems. You will need to dive deep into new technologies—such as LLM deployment frameworks, reinforcement learning infrastructure, and multi-step reasoning orchestration—and quickly apply them to solve real customer problems. You will own well-defined but often ambiguous technical problems, ensuring your solutions are scalable, reliable, and directly contribute to advertiser-facing products. This role is highly impactful: your contributions will form the backbone of the systems that deliver personalized, context-aware guidance to millions of advertisers. You will collaborate across science, product, and platform teams, and your work will focus on building resilient, observable, and maintainable systems that accelerate innovation in agent-based AI.

Key job responsibilities

  • Implement core services and APIs for agent orchestration, tool invocation, and state management.
  • Build scalable, reusable data and tool registry
  • Build components of evaluation pipelines (offline/online) for measuring reasoning quality, advertiser outcomes, and safety guardrails.
  • Develop infrastructure to support fine-tuning and reinforcement learning pipelines, collaborating with scientists to productionize workflows.
  • Ensure performance, scalability, observability, and maintainability through strong engineering practices.
  • Participate in system design, code reviews, and team architecture discussions.
  • Continuously learn and apply new techniques in agentic frameworks, distributed systems, and cloud-native development.

About The Team
The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through the latest generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across 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.

The Advertiser Guidance team within Sponsored Products and Brands is focused on guiding and supporting 1.6MM advertisers to meet their advertising needs of creating and managing ad campaigns. At this scale, the complexity of diverse advertiser goals, campaign types, and market dynamics creates both a massive technical challenge and a transformative opportunity: even small improvements in guidance systems can have outsized impact on advertiser success and Amazon's retail ecosystem.

Our vision is to build a highly personalized, context-aware agentic advertiser guidance system that leverages LLMs together with tools such as auction simulations, ML models, and optimization algorithms. This agentic framework, will operate across both chat and non-chat experiences in the ad console, scaling to natural language queries as well as proactively delivering guidance based on deep understanding of the advertiser. To execute this vision, we collaborate closely with stakeholders across Ad Console, Sales, and Marketing to identify opportunities—from high-level product guidance down to granular keyword recommendations—and deliver them through a tailored, personalized experience. Our work is grounded in state-of-the-art agent architectures, tool integration, reasoning frameworks, and model customization approaches (including tuning, MCP, and preference optimization), ensuring our systems are both scalable and adaptive.

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

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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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Job ID: A3106335



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