AdTech Measurement SDE — Petabyte-Scale Data Pipelines

Amazon; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in Seattle is hiring a Software Development Engineer for Measurement, AdTech, and Data Science to build attribution systems processing billions of events daily and delivering measurements powering Amazon Ads.

You will collaborate with applied scientists, economists, product managers, and engineers to translate measurement ideas into scalable production systems, owning projects end-to-end and shaping architectures for reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 3+ years designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software applications using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 2+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deliver software that produces measurement data consumed across Amazon's full advertising suite — spanning display, search, native, and video
• Build and maintain petabyte-scale data pipelines and services using technologies like Spark, EMR, Apache Iceberg, and Java, inventing new big data paradigms to keep pace with rapid growth
• Navigate complex attribution challenges with creative problem-solving — adapting to evolving technical requirements, privacy landscapes, and shifting priorities
• Collaborate with applied scientists, economists, product managers, and engineers across teams to translate measurement methodologies into scalable production systems
• Apply a variety of architectural approaches and design patterns to deliver maintainable, scalable, and well-tested solutions in a high-throughput environment
• Drive engineering best practices including code reviews, testing strategies, operational excellence (alarms, runbooks, monitoring), and continuous improvement

Skills

C#

C++

Java

Perl

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Spark

EMR

Apache Iceberg

DynamoDB

Hadoop

Presto

Job description

Amazon in Seattle is hiring a Software Development Engineer for Measurement, AdTech, and Data Science to build attribution systems processing billions of events daily and delivering measurements powering Amazon Ads.

You will collaborate with applied scientists, economists, product managers, and engineers to translate measurement ideas into scalable production systems, owning projects end-to-end and shaping architectures for reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.