Software Development Engineer, Predictive Targeting

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer, Predictive Targeting in Seattle, United States. It pays $144k-$194k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.

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Want to build systems where machine learning and AI agents decide, in real time, which customers Amazon reaches across its marketing channels? The Predictive Targeting team is reinventing how Amazon targets its marketing as an AI-native, self-improving system — and we need a strong Software Development Engineer II to help build it.

Today a marketer hand-picks audiences with manual rules and makes dozens of undocumented judgment calls to get there. We are replacing that with an agentic workflow: a marketer describes a goal in plain language, and the system compiles it step by step and auditably into a scored, measurable customer audience, then closes the loop by measuring live results, learning what worked, and improving the next run.

You will own the engineering behind that loop: distributed services and agent tooling that turn an objective into an audience, score it, and keep refining it. The platform runs worldwide across more than a dozen marketplaces on customer signals refreshed daily, and must start optimizing at day 1 of a campaign, under guardrails that protect the customer experience.

As an SDE II you will own features end to end, from design through production and on-call, make smart trade-offs in an ambiguous and fast-moving space, and raise the bar for the engineers around you. You thrive without a fully specified problem, you sweat the details at scale, and you want your code to move a real business metric.

Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will:

- Design and build innovative GenAI and agentic solutions in a large distributed computing environment, and help lead fundamental changes in how marketing targeting works.
- Create scalable solutions that run machine-learning predictions and agent-driven decisions on distributed systems, at incredible scale and speed.
- Build distributed storage, indexing, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low-cost, and easy to operate.
- Turn broadly defined, ambiguous problems into the right technical solutions — and ship the code behind them.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software, owning features end to end from design through production and on-call.

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.

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 https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Software Development Engineer, Predictive Targeting at Amazon rates 13 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.