Sr Software Development Engineer, Ads AI Core Infra

Would you like to build highly available scalable distributed engineering systems for one of the largest data lakes in Amazon Does Petabyte scale excite you

Spektr Datalake team is the central data lake for Advertising unifying Petabytes of data generated across the Ads pipeline such as campaigns ad-serving billing clicks impressions and more and into a single scalable repository. This is used across the organization to drive hundreds of thousands of complex queries for analysis measurement and reporting decisions for our customers. The data lake enables customers such as data engineers business analysts ML engineers research scientists economists and data experts to collect what they need via world-class self-service tools.

Spektr Data Lake team in Ads AI Core Infra org has a mission to provide unified experience for easy discovery and access to privacy compliant data that helps advertising business teams quickly generate insights and meet the data needs of Ads AI models with a vision to build the worlds best & most cost efficient analytics platform. A Sr SDE on this team has a unique opportunity to create tech strategies design and innovate solutions for this scale delivering robust and scalable services built over Java leveraging AWS services as well as innovate with big data technologies like Spark EMR Athena and more. You will create value that materially impacts the speed and quality of decision making across the organization resulting in tangible business growth.

Key job responsibilities
- Engage with key stakeholders such as Product Program Managers Senior Managers to understand customer business requirements and brainstorm on solutions. Drive tech strategy and decision making.
- Apply your technical expertise to solve complex software problems in a fast-paced environment
- Strategize design and launch services for medium-to-large scale projects across all areas of this Spektr Data lake core components. All with the goal of delivering a seamless experience to the customer.
- Provide guidance to and mentor other SDEs in the team. Ensure testability maintainability and low operational footprint for the team.
- Participate in operational responsibilities with your team and ensure clear and accurate business metrics and operational metrics.

A day in the life
As a Sr Software Development Engineer on this team you will create strategies software designs and implementation for medium-to-large scale projects across all ETL components that make up Publishing Core ETL and data compliance charters. You will work directly with product management and program management to understand and define requirements and apply your technical expertise to solve complex software problems in a fast-paced environment. Youll design and build software and systems for novel customer experiences AWS services and large-scale back-end web services all with the goal of delivering a seamless experience to the customer.

About the team
Spektr Data Lake team in Ads AI Core Infra org has a mission to provide unified experience for easy discovery and access to privacy compliant data that helps advertising business teams quickly generate insights and meet the data needs of Ads AI models with a vision to build the worlds best & most cost efficient analytics platform.

We are a global team with presence across IN and NA.

- 6 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 6 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 6 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

- 6 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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