##DESCRIPTION

The Demand Forecasting and Guidance (DFG) team within Amazon Ads Demand Tech is seeking a software engineer to drive industry-leading campaign forecasting and recommendation solutions. This role sits at the intersection of ads technology (Agentic LLM), science, product, UI/UX, and business strategy, offering a unique opportunity to shape the future of forecasting and recommendations at scale.

You will design, build, and experiment with solutions that bridge forecasting and guidance algorithms with scalable, user-centric applications. Your work will ensure technical architecture supports accurate predictions while delivering actionable insights through intuitive interfaces.

The ideal candidate demonstrates strong technical skills in distributed systems, possesses knowledge of both front-end and back-end technologies, and excels at collaborating across teams. You'll balance technical excellence with business acumen, partnering across organizations to deliver solutions that drive revenue growth.

This role offers the opportunity to lead complex technical initiatives, mentor team members, and make a significant impact on Amazon's advertising platform at scale.

Key job responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable APIs and microservices for real-time forecasting and recommendations

• Develop efficient data pipelines and storage solutions to process large-scale advertising campaign data

• Collaborate with scientists to translate statistical models and algorithms into production-ready systems

• Participate in the team's on-call rotation, actively monitor system health, respond to operational events, and drive continuous improvements to reduce operational burden through runbook enhancements and ticket triage.

• Contribute to team velocity goals by maintaining a healthy development pipeline, removing blockers, and ensuring timely delivery of features and fixes in alignment with organizational commitments.

• Own and optimize infrastructure costs by identifying and eliminating waste, right-sizing resources, and contributing to cost reduction goals without compromising reliability or performance.

• Drive timely infrastructure upgrades including hardware refreshes, software version updates, and dependency migrations to ensure systems remain current, supportable, and performant.

• Ensure systems and services meet security and compliance standards by remediating vulnerabilities, and adhering to organizational security policies and audit requirements.

• Build Agentic solutions to automate triage process, patch and EOL management, cost anomaly detection, ticket deflection, and security compliance remediation — to significantly reduce operational toil and keep systems healthy at scale.

About the team
Our team provides customer facing forecasting and recommendations for self-service advertising customers throughout their campaign lifecycle journey. Our products educate customers on budget allocation opportunities, effective campaign setup, and optimizations. Accurate forecasting is critical to many growth initiatives across the business.

##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.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN, ON, Toronto - 114,800.00 - 191,800.00 CAD annually