Software Development Engineer - Big Data Analytics, Measurement, AdTech and Data Science

Amazon.com Inc

Boulder, CO

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Adtech, Advertising, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Hadoop, Big Data, Budgeting, Business Growth, Data Analysis, Data Processing, Data Science, Elasticsearch, Electronic Medical Records, Integration Testing, Machine Learning, Marketing Objectives, Product Development, Product Support, Production Support, Requirements Management, Scalable System Development, Software Design, Software Development, Software Engineering, Time Management, Unit Test
LOCATION
Boulder, CO
POSTED
25 days ago

Application deadline: May 27, 2026

Are you passionate about using Big Data to build customer trust and grow new business? Global advertisers rely on our team"s performance insights to drive future investment in Amazon"s Advertising Platform and improve the relevance of ads shown to customers. We"re looking for strong Software Development Engineers who can combine EMR, Redshift, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, and other technologies to build the next generation of our analytics and visualization platform. If this sounds interesting, we"d love to hear from you.

About the Team

Amazon is well positioned to grow its share of the fast-growing online advertising industry thanks to its unique assets - e-commerce data, service-oriented architecture, and startup culture. Be part of a team of industry-leading experts that builds and operates one of the largest big data analytics platforms at Amazon. We apply the latest machine learning and big data technologies to transform how marketers purchase, track, measure, and optimize their advertising spend. We process terabytes of data (over 10 billion new events per day) and operate clusters that push the scalability limits of existing technologies. Our goal: measure every possible signal indicating the impact of advertising to provide the most objective view of marketing spend.

The Role

In this role, you will design and develop software products that impact many areas of our business. You"ll help define requirements, create software designs, implement code to specification, deliver thorough unit and integration testing, and support products in production for our stakeholders. You"ll own your work end-to-end - from problem definition through deployment and beyond.

Key job responsibilities

  • Design and develop software products that deliver measurement data to a wide set of users across Amazon"s full advertising suite
  • Demonstrate a variety of design approaches and patterns, building maintainable and scalable software in a high-level language
  • Collaborate with Engineering teams, Data & Applied Scientists, and senior technical leaders advancing measurement science and causal inference
  • Adapt to evolving technical environments and devise creative solutions to complex software challenges
  • Build petabyte-scale services, invent new big data paradigms, and architect for internet-scale growth - tackling some of the toughest and most inspiring technical challenges of your career

A day in the life

We measure the effectiveness of ads through a range of deterministic measurement and modeling techniques, including scientific experiments and ML. We do this to enable advertisers to optimize ad spend and allocate budgets effectively by providing accurate, actionable and timely causal measurement for all Amazon ad products. We use a combination of deterministic and modeled measurement techniques to produce the estimates that are fast, accurate, and actionable. We apply the latest AWS big data and machine learning technologies on over 50 billion new events per day, operating petabyte size clusters. We constantly invent event-driven architectures to stay ahead of growth

About the Company

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Amazon.com Inc

At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Retail
FOUNDED
1994
WEBSITE
http://Amazon.com/militaryroles