Data Platform Engineer: Lakehouse & AI Tools

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Restricted stock units (RSUs)

Paid time off

Parental leave

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon Advertising seeks an engineer to own data platform work at scale, building data pipelines and a Lakehouse architecture that serves reporting surfaces and AI agents. You will ship core platform features, validate data, and onboard new advertising products with partner teams.

The team designs automated validation, develops AI-powered tooling, and mentors through a growth path toward platform-level initiatives. This full-time role is based in Seattle, WA.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive, Lucene/SOLR or Storm/Samza experience.
• 2+ years designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using Java, C#, C++, or Perl.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Build data pipelines that turn raw advertising events into the metrics advertisers use to measure and grow their businesses.
• Design and ship new platform capabilities using table-based architectures that unlock faster onboarding, simpler operations, and broader data access.
• Create automated validation and monitoring that keeps data accurate at scale.
• Improve infrastructure efficiency and reduce operational costs across a large compute fleet.
• Work with partner teams to onboard new advertising products onto the reporting platform.
• Build AI-powered tooling and autonomous operations agents that improve platform reliability and developer productivity.

Skills

Big data

Distributed systems design

Object Oriented Design

Java

Python

C++

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Spark

Java

TypeScript

DynamoDB

Redshift

Iceberg

Job description

Amazon Advertising seeks an engineer to own data platform work at scale, building data pipelines and a Lakehouse architecture that serves reporting surfaces and AI agents. You will ship core platform features, validate data, and onboard new advertising products with partner teams.

The team designs automated validation, develops AI-powered tooling, and mentors through a growth path toward platform-level initiatives. This full-time role is based in Seattle, WA.