Sr. Software Development Engineer, Measurement, Ad Tech, and Data Science

Do you want to architect systems that process petabytes of data and power advertising decisions for millions of advertisers worldwide Are you energized by solving hard distributed systems problems at a scale few companies ever reach This is your opportunity.

Amazon Advertising operates one of the largest big data platforms on the planet processing trillions of events daily across display search native and video surfaces on every device. Were looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead the design and delivery of our next-generation measurement and reporting infrastructure the backbone that enables advertisers to understand attribute and optimize their spend across Amazons full advertising suite.

You will define the technical direction for critical data systems driving architectural decisions that balance scale latency cost and extensibility. Youll leverage technologies like Spark Flink and Java alongside AWS services EMR Kinesis DynamoDB Bedrock and more to build pipelines and platforms that serve diverse consumers at Amazon scale. Youll own the end-to-end lifecycle: from whiteboarding system designs in ambiguous problem spaces to shipping production systems that handle billions of requests with high availability.

The ideal candidate has a proven track record of delivering highly distributed systems at scale with deep expertise in platform design patterns including SDKs libraries APIs and versioning strategies that enable teams across the organization to build on your foundations. You are operationally excellent technically rigorous and thrive when partnering across organizational boundaries to align engineering strategy with business outcomes. You dont just build systems you raise the bar for how your team and adjacent teams build them.

Key job responsibilities
- Demonstrate strong engineering fundamentals and apply real-world experience to solve complex technical challenges
- Showcase diverse architectural approaches and design patterns in technical designs
- Think big and stay informed about industry standards and emerging trends in the Ad Tech space
- Communicate effectively across all leadership levels both verbally and in writing
- Lead deep technical discussions with senior engineers collaborating to solve challenging problems
- Quickly grasp new systems and provide valuable technical consultation to stakeholders
- Drive adoption of agenting patterns for development and on-call support to deliver higher quality products faster

A day in the life
Our team is responsible for processing all advertising events over tens of billions new events per day including impressions clicks and views across all Amazon products. We provide petabyte-scale low-latency and highly available event lookup services to a wide set of users within Amazon Ads.

On any given day youll be applying the latest machine learning and big data technologies to terabytes of incoming data operating petabyte-size clusters that power advertising measurement at Amazon scale. Speed and accuracy are everything our data enables advertisers to optimize ad spend and allocate budgets effectively by delivering accurate actionable and timely performance metrics across Amazons full advertising suite.

About the team
Join the Amazon Ads team! This is a unique opportunity to take ownership and lead significant initiatives building 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 petabyte-scale services invent new big data paradigms and scale for unprecedented growth.

- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 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

- 5 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
- Experience with big data technologies such as: Hadoop Hive Spark EMR

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 CA Santa Monica - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually