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

Application deadline: Jul 13 2026

Build the measurement systems that tell advertisers whether their ads actually work processing 50 billion events daily using ML causal inference and petabyte-scale AWS infrastructure. Join a team where your code directly enables billions in optimized ad spend across all Amazon Ads products.

We combine rigorous scientific experiments with deterministic and modeled measurement techniques to produce estimates that are fast precise and actionable. Using AWS big data and machine learning technologies (EMR DynamoDB Spark Scala) we operate petabyte-scale clusters and continuously innovate on event-driven architectures to stay ahead of rapidly growing scale. We also leverage generative AI tools to accelerate our development testing and deployment cycles.

Key job responsibilities
- Design build and operate large-scale distributed systems that process 50B daily events for causal ad measurement
- Develop and optimize data pipelines on petabyte-scale clusters using Spark Scala and AWS big data services (EMR DynamoDB)
- Implement and productionize machine learning models and causal inference methodologies
- Innovate on event-driven architectures to handle rapidly growing data volumes
- Collaborate with scientists and engineers to translate causal measurement research into production-grade systems
- Leverage generative AI tools to accelerate development testing and deployment cycles
- Own end-to-end system reliability including monitoring alarming and operational excellence

A day in the life
Youll work across the full stack of a measurement platform from designing the data ingestion layer that handles billions of events to building the ML infrastructure that powers causal estimates to deploying production services that deliver real-time insights to advertisers. Youll partner closely with applied scientists to translate experimental designs into scalable systems and youll use GenAI tools to ship faster.

About the team
This team builds the core causal measurement and modeling capabilities serving all of Amazon Ads. We work with diverse systems and languages combining AWS services like EMR and DynamoDB with Spark and Scala. We also leverage generative AI tools to accelerate our development testing and deployment cycles.

- 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
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design 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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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 CO Boulder - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually