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Sr. Software Development Engineer, Advanced Analytics

Amazon.com Inc
  • Seattle, WA
    10 days ago

    Job Description

    We build advanced analytic solutions that power measurement and intelligence for Amazon Ads" most strategic customers: Holding Companies, independent agencies, technology integrators, and large-scale advertisers. Our team owns and operates the premier advanced analytics capability within Amazon Ads, delivering innovative AI, modeling, and data solutions that help customers make smarter, faster, and more impactful advertising decisions.

    Transparency is reshaping programmatic advertising. As the ecosystem grows (with multiple layers in the ad buying and selling supply chain) advertisers demand granular visibility into every impression, bid, viewability score, and supply path. Log-level data makes this possible: raw, non-aggregated, event-level signals from ad servers, exchanges, and SSPs that unlock insights no dashboard summary can provide.

    As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the Log-Level Data team, you will design and build the foundational infrastructure to ingest, process, store, and analyze this data at petabyte scale. Your systems will power our organization"s ability to understand auction dynamics, surface revenue opportunities, optimize floor pricing, and deliver supply-chain transparency to Amazon"s largest advertising partners. You"ll own end-to-end, from architecture and implementation through to production operations, and your work will directly shape the next generation of advertising measurement.

    What we"re looking for:

    You are a creative, proven technical leader who thrives on ambiguity and loves building from zero-to-one. You bring deep expertise in distributed systems and large-scale data processing, strong analytical instincts, and the drive to ship high-quality solutions at pace. You think strategically about system architecture and dive deep into implementation details. You balance competing priorities with pragmatic trade-offs, communicate clearly across technical and business audiences, and hold yourself and your team to a high bar for code quality and operational excellence.

    If you"re excited by the chance to build foundational infrastructure that powers transparency across one of the world"s largest advertising platforms, we"d love to talk.

    Key job responsibilities

    • Design and build highly scalable, fault-tolerant data pipelines to ingest, process, and store petabyte-scale log-level advertising data from multiple sources including ad servers, exchanges, and SSPs
    • Architect distributed systems that enable real-time and batch processing of granular event-level data with sub-second latency requirements
    • Develop robust data quality frameworks to validate, cleanse, and enrich raw log data while maintaining data lineage and audit trails
    • Create efficient storage solutions optimized for both high-throughput writes and complex analytical queries across massive datasets
    • Build APIs and data access layers that enable downstream analytics, modeling, and reporting applications to leverage log-level data
    • Collaborate with data scientists, product managers, and business stakeholders to translate transparency and measurement requirements into technical solutions
    • Establish operational excellence practices including monitoring, alerting, and automated recovery mechanisms for mission-critical data infrastructure
    • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the technical direction of the team through design reviews, code reviews, and architectural discussions
    • Drive innovation in data processing techniques, exploring emerging technologies and methodologies to improve system performance and capabilities

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSeattle, WA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    About Company

    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

    Skills

    • Advertisingunmatched
    • Analysis Skillsunmatched
    • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
    • Architectural Servicesunmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Business Operationsunmatched
    • Code Reviewsunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
    • Data Analysisunmatched
    • Data Managementunmatched
    • Data Modelingunmatched
    • Data Processingunmatched
    • Data Qualityunmatched
    • Data Scienceunmatched
    • Data Setsunmatched
    • Distributed Computingunmatched
    • Ecosystemsunmatched
    • Emerging Technologyunmatched
    • High Throughputunmatched
    • Large-Scale Systemsunmatched
    • Mentoringunmatched
    • Organizational Skillsunmatched
    • Performance Managementunmatched
    • Pricingunmatched
    • Query Analysisunmatched
    • Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
    • Salesunmatched
    • Scalable System Developmentunmatched
    • Software Developmentunmatched
    • Software Engineeringunmatched
    • Supply Chainunmatched
    • System Architectureunmatched
    • Technical Leadershipunmatched

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