Data Platform Engineer - Lakehouse & AI Tools

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

Job summary

Amazon Advertising is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the Reporting Data Platform to own data pipelines and ship scalable software at massive scale. You will build the core platform and AI-powered tooling that supports advertisers and internal teams, turning raw event data into reliable metrics and insights.

Join a team currently deploying a Lakehouse architecture, with surface-level reporting, AI agents, and autonomous operations tooling.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive, Lucene/SOLR or Storm/Samza experience
• 2+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 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

Java

C++

Python

OOP design

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Hadoop

Spark

Pig

Hive

Lucene/SOLR

Storm/Samza

EMR

Job description

Amazon Advertising is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the Reporting Data Platform to own data pipelines and ship scalable software at massive scale. You will build the core platform and AI-powered tooling that supports advertisers and internal teams, turning raw event data into reliable metrics and insights.

Join a team currently deploying a Lakehouse architecture, with surface-level reporting, AI agents, and autonomous operations tooling.