Software Dev Engineer II, Measurement, Ad Tech, and Data Science (MADS)

Are you passionate about Big Data and Distributed systems Do you enjoy building new stateoftheart products at Petabyte scale Be part of a team of worldclass engineers and industry leading experts operating one of the largest big data platforms for advertising at Amazon scale.

Key job responsibilities
We are seeking an experienced software engineer to build the next generation of systems using open source technologies such as Hadoop Hive Spark and Presto and AWS services like EMR Kinesis and DynamoDB. You will have background delivering highly distributed systems at scale design patterns like SDKs libraries versioning and a strong operational track record working with multiple teams. You will be responsible for designing and developing software products that will provide measurement and reporting to a wide set of users across all of Amazons advertising suite across display search native and video on all devices.

Candidates for this position should have strong engineering fundamentals as well as realworld experience. You will showcase diverse architectural approaches and design patterns in your technical design. Think big and stay informed about industry standards in Ad tech space. Communicate effectively across all leadership levels verbally and in writing. Lead deep technical discussions with senior engineers collaborating to solve challenging problems. You will be able to quickly grasp new systems and provide valuable consultation.

A day in the life
We are responsible for processing all advertising events (over tens of billions of new events per day) such as impressions clicks and views across all Amazon products. We provide petabytescale low latency and highly available event look up services to a wide set of users within Amazon Ads. We apply the latest machine learning and big data technologies available on terabytes of data a day operating Petabyte size clusters. Our data must always be fast enabling advertisers to optimize ad spend and allocate budgets effectively by providing accurate actionable and timely performance metrics across all of Amazons advertising products.

About the team
Join our fast growing Amazon Ads team! This presents an unique opportunity to take ownership and lead significant initiatives to build innovative solutions to complex and challenging problems. You will encounter some of the toughest and most inspiring technical challenges of your career as you build petabytescale services invent new big data paradigms and scale for rapid growth.

3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language

3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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.