Software Development Engineer, Analytics & Data Management, Advertising Core Services

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Software Development Engineer for their Analytics & Data Management team. The role involves building scalable microservices for a data lake, focusing on system availability and innovative solutions. Candidates should have strong software development experience and a background in system design.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, code and deploy components and micro-services.
• Engage with decision makers to understand customer requirements.
• Automate monitoring of data availability and quality.

Skills

Software Development

Design Patterns

Reliability

Scaling

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Software Development Engineer, Analytics & Data Management, Advertising Core Services

Would you like to build highly available, scalable and distributed microservices for the Advertising Data Lake? Does Petabyte scale excite you?

The Spektr team owns the central data lake for Advertising, with services for data ingestion, analysis, cataloging and infrastructure. Spektr provides customers with self-serve tools to analyze Petabytes of data such as campaigns, ad-serving, billing, clicks, impressions and more generated across the Ads pipeline. This enables engineers, business analysts, ML engineers, research scientists, economists and data experts to perform analysis, measurement and reporting decisions over high quality data.

Spektr Datalake team is building the next version of its core platform for 5x growth. An SDE on this team has a unique opportunity to design the core infra services to scale for Petabytes of data per day with 99.9% uptime, minimal error rates and low operational footprint. Services built by you will utilize technologies such as Java, AWS Lambda, Kinesis, Spark, Redis, EMR, Athena and more to build highly distributed data processing frameworks. Your work 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 decision makers such as Product & Program Managers to understand customer requirements and brainstorm on solutions
- Design, code and deploy components and micro-services for the core job management pipeline
- Ensure testability, maintanability and low operational footprint for your code
- Participate in operational responsibilities with your team
- Innovate on AWS technology to improve latency, reduce cost and operations

A day in the life
- Focus on core engineering opportunities to guarantee system availability that matches our data growth
- Work with a skilled team of engineers, managers and decision makers to consistently meet customer demand
- Automate monitoring of data availability, quality and usability via simplified metrics and drive innovations to improve guarantees for our customers
- Build frugal solutions that will help make Spektr data lake cost wise leanest datalake in Amazon

About the team
The mission of the Spektr Datalake team is to provide data that helps the advertising organization make informed analyses and decisions for our customers and to determine and deploy investments for future growth via a set of central and unified products and services.
Our team focuses on simplicity, usability, speed, compliance, cost efficiency and enabling high-velocity decision making so our customers can generate high quality insights faster.

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

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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