Senior Software Engineer - Causal Ad Measurement & Data

Socket.dev

Boulder (CO)

On-site

USD 168,000 - 227,000

Full time

5 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Paid time off
Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Ads is seeking a senior data systems engineer to design and operate petabyte-scale data pipelines, using AWS, Spark and Scala. You will collaborate with scientists and product managers to drive innovation in a fast-growing environment.

The role emphasizes building causal measurement models, leading architecture decisions, and ensuring reliability at scale for advertisers worldwide.

Qualifications

  • For 5+ years of professional software development experience with strong coding skills.
  • Experience leading design or architecture for scalable systems (patterns, reliability, and growth).
  • Mentorship or tech lead experience guiding engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable systems processing billions of events on petabyte-scale clusters.
  • Develop causal measurement and ML techniques to assess advertising effectiveness.
  • Architect event-driven solutions using AWS big data tools to handle rapid growth.
  • Combine deterministic and modeled measurement for fast, precise estimates.
  • Drive technical strategy and architecture decisions across Amazon ad products.
  • Collaborate with scientists and engineers to deliver production-grade solutions.
  • Set engineering standards for reliability and operational excellence.

Skills

Software development
Architecture leadership
Mentorship / Tech lead
Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

AWS
Spark/Scala

Job description

Amazon Ads is seeking a senior data systems engineer to design and operate petabyte-scale data pipelines, using AWS, Spark and Scala. You will collaborate with scientists and product managers to drive innovation in a fast-growing environment.

The role emphasizes building causal measurement models, leading architecture decisions, and ensuring reliability at scale for advertisers worldwide.

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