Software Development Engineer - Big Data, Brand Metrics and Benchmarks

Amazon • New York, NY

33d

About The Position

Are you passionate about Big Data, Distributed systems, and large scale datasets
can be integrated with new state-of-the-art AI agent-friendly data interfaces?
Be part of a team of world-class engineers and industry leading experts
operating one of the largest big data platforms for advertising at Amazon scale.

We're a collaborative team of engineers who are passionate about solving complex
data challenges while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Our engineers
regularly work with latest technologies—recent projects include migrating our
data lake to Apache Iceberg, implementing real-time streaming pipelines with
Spark, and building unified and flexible reporting solutions. We invest heavily
in your growth through mentorship programs, technical design reviews, and
opportunities to present at internal tech talks. We believe in sustainable
engineering practices with reasonable on-call rotations (typically one week per
quarter) and flexible work arrangements.

Requirements

• 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
• 1+ years of big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive, Lucene/SOLR or Storm/Samza experience

Nice To Haves

• 4+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• 4+ years of contributing to new and current systems architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) experience
• Experience building and operating data pipelines using Apache Spark and Scala on Amazon EMR, spanning extraction, ingestion, batch and streaming processing. Data lake design with Apache Iceberg a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and build highly scalable, fault-tolerant data pipelines processing petabytes of advertising data
• Architect new data paradigms that enable real-time analytics and machine learning applications
• Collaborate with data scientists, product managers, and partner teams across Amazon Ads to deliver data solutions that drive business impact
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and pair programming
• Contribute to technical strategy and architectural decisions for our data platform
• Build monitoring, alerting, and data quality frameworks to ensure reliability at scale

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed