Description Amazon Ads Response Prediction team is your choice, if you want to join a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. We're in search of a seasoned Machine Learning Engineer possessing a profound inclination for innovation at the nexus of customer experience, deep learning, and large-scale machine-learning systems. This role will spearhead the technical trajectory of ML solutions, working tirelessly to enhance their efficacy, reliability, and scalability. Amazon Advertising, functioning at the convergence of eCommerce and advertising, is fervently investing in the development of an unrivaled advertising business. We are the architects of an array of self-service performance advertising products that catalyze product discovery and sales. Our offerings are strategically crucial to our Retail and Marketplace businesses, propelling enduring growth. We serve billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily, pioneering new territories to create world-class products that amplify the experience of both shoppers and advertisers. Endowed with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we're growing at an exceptional pace, opening up an infinite array of opportunities. We're seeking a senior Software Engineer with Machine Learning knowledge for our Sponsored Products Ad Response Prediction team to elevate our business to new heights. Our mission is to deliver superior real-time machine learning services, connecting shoppers with perfectly-matched ads across all platforms and surfaces globally. By developing a profound understanding of shoppers and products, we help shoppers uncover products they'll adore, provide the most efficient platform for advertisers to reach their customers, and enable Amazon to continually innovate for the benefit of all its customers. As a SDE ML, you will operate across various technologies within the organization. Your responsibilities will include designing, coding, troubleshooting, and supporting scalable machine-learning pipelines and online serving systems. You'll also work with implementing end-to-end ML solutions and optimizing their performance. Beyond being a passionately motivated individual contributor, you'll also mentor junior engineers, guiding them to realize their full potential. Key job responsibilities Key job responsibilities - Contribute to the technical direction of our offerings and solutions - Work with many different technologies across the sponsored products organization. - Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market. - Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry. - Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed. - Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use. - Design, code, troubleshoot, and support scalable machine-learning pipelines and online serving systems. - Work closely with applied scientists to optimize the performance of machine-learning models and infrastructure, and implement end-to-end solutions. Basic Qualifications - 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience - 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience - 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience - Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team Preferred Qualifications - 5+ 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. 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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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.