Data Platform Engineer: AI-Powered Advertising Metrics

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Advertising seeks a Software Development Engineer for the Reporting Data Platform in Seattle. You will own data pipelines that turn ad events into measurable metrics and design platform capabilities to speed onboarding and access.

You’ll create automated validation, monitor data accuracy, and work on AI-powered tooling to improve reliability and developer productivity. The role involves reducing costs, partnering with teams to onboard new products, and contributing to a Lakehouse

Qualifications

• 3+ years of big data tech incl AWS, Hadoop, Spark.
• 2+ years designing and developing large-scale software using Java/C#/C++/ Perl.
• 2+ years in software design or architecture.
• 1+ years of SDE or related experience.
• 1+ years of OO design experience.
• Experience programming with at least one language.

Responsibilities

• Build data pipelines turning raw ad events into metrics.
• Design and ship platform capabilities with table-based architectures.
• Create automated validation and monitoring for data accuracy at scale.
• Improve infrastructure efficiency and reduce operational costs.
• Onboard new advertising products onto the reporting platform.
• Build AI-powered tooling and autonomous operations agents.

Skills

Big data stack

Distributed software design

Software architecture

SDE experience

OO design

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

Java

Python

TypeScript (AWS CDK)

Apache Spark on EMR

Apache Iceberg

EKS

DynamoDB

Redshift

Athena

Job description

Amazon Advertising seeks a Software Development Engineer for the Reporting Data Platform in Seattle. You will own data pipelines that turn ad events into measurable metrics and design platform capabilities to speed onboarding and access.

You’ll create automated validation, monitor data accuracy, and work on AI-powered tooling to improve reliability and developer productivity. The role involves reducing costs, partnering with teams to onboard new products, and contributing to a Lakehouse