Software Development Engineer, Advertising Core Services

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Software Development Engineer to innovate and build scalable systems for data governance. This role offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technologies like AWS, Java, and Python, contributing to the management of vast data lakes. You'll collaborate with a talented team to ensure system availability and optimize costs, driving impactful business decisions. If you're passionate about engineering and eager to make a difference in a fast-paced environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience with design patterns, reliability, and scaling.

Responsibilities

• Engage with decision makers to understand customer requirements.
• Design and deploy components for the core job management pipeline.

Skills

Java

Python

AWS

Microservices

Big Data Technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Spark

EMR

Athena

Job description

Software Development Engineer, Advertising Core Services

Job ID: 2967532 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Would you like to build highly available, scalable and distributed engineering systems for one of the largest data lakes in Amazon? Does Petabyte scale excite you?

The Amazon Advertisement core service generates Petabytes of data across the Ads pipeline such as campaigns, ad-serving, billing, clicks, impressions and more and into a single scalable repository. This is used across the organization to drive hundreds of thousands of complex queries for analysis, measurement and reporting decisions for our customers.

We are building the next version of its data governance service for 1.1 Hexabyte of data. An SDE on the team has a unique opportunity to design and innovate solutions for this scale, delivering robust and scalable microservices built over Java, Python and AWS as well as innovate with big data technologies like Spark, EMR, Athena and more. You will create value that materially impacts the speed and quality of decision making across the organization resulting in tangible business growth.

Key job responsibilities
- Engage with key decision makers such as Product & Program Managers to understand customer requirements and brainstorm on solutions
- Design, code and deploy components and micro-services for the core job management pipeline
- Ensure testability, maintainability and low operational footprint for your code
- Participate in operational responsibilities with your team
- Innovate on AWS technology to improve latency, reduce cost and operations

A day in the life
- Focus on core engineering opportunities to guarantee system availability that matches our data growth
- Work with a skilled team of engineers, managers and decision makers to consistently meet customer demand
- Automate monitoring of data availability, quality and usability via simplified metrics and drive innovations to improve guarantees for our customers
- Build frugal solutions that will help to optimize the IMR cost

About the team
The mission of the Advertisement Core team is to provide the centralize and unified planform for data governance services for Hexabyte of data while ensuring high level security and compliance; that helps the advertising organization make informed analyses and decisions for our customers and to determine and deploy investments for future growth via a set of central and unified products and services.
Our team focuses on simplicity, usability, speed, compliance, cost efficiency and enabling high-velocity decision making so our customers can generate high quality insights faster.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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