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Are you passionate about Big Data and Distributed Systems to build customer trust and grow new business? Interested in building new state-of-the-art products at Petabyte scale? Global advertisers rely on our team's performance insights to drive future investment in Amazon's Advertising Platform and improve the relevance of ads shown to customers.
We’re looking for strong Software Engineers that can build upon technologies such as Elasticsearch, Spark, Hive and Presto, as well as AWS services like Elastic Map Reduce (EMR), Redshift, Kinesis and DynamoDB to deliver next generation of our analytics platform. If this sounds interesting we’d love to hear from you!
Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are at the forefront of that explosive growth. We deliver campaign reporting for all of Amazon advertising and produce analytics and reporting data that are used by advertisers to grow their business every day. We process billions of ad impressions, clicks, and conversion events daily and we invent and evolve our event-driven architectures with AWS to manage the large scale of our data growth. As campaign reporting product owners, we are also breaking fresh ground to create world-class analytics products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and agile bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, highly respected advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place.
The Measurement and Data Science team delivers campaign measurement and reporting across Amazon Advertising business and serves as the scientific center of excellence for algorithm development in campaign measurement. Our measurement and engineering platforms and products deliver campaign performance reporting to advertisers. By showing ads on and off our site, we effectively measure the Internet with billions of incoming, highly decorated events to process and summarize every day in near real time. Our infrastructure is large scale, requiring invention ahead of common technologies and exceeding PB scale with millions of transactions per second. We are highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action.
As the Engineer in this team, you focus on complex, ambiguous problem areas and lead the technical charter of the team in the mission of building highly scalable and available systems that can be leveraged by advertising teams in a self-service manner to power new reporting experiences for Amazon’s advertising customers. The team’s infrastructure currently serves 130MM queries per day, storing more than 750 billion records totaling roughly 2 PB+ data managed and operated through the self-service control plane. This SDE (along with the team) will own big data systems built natively on AWS and is critical for providing transparency for advertisers on the performance of their advertising mission. The SDE will drive efficiencies in engineering and complex architectures to unblock innovation and speed of delivery for the advertising business. The SDE is responsible for being the domain expert and driver for cross-organization projects that deliver delightful performance reporting features for our advertising customers. The SDE owns ad-program agnostic systems that efficiently transform, aggregate and publish views of the reporting data from ad server events to the reporting API while honoring the data freshness and availability SLAs.
Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers the foundational components that enable advertisers to analyze their advertising performance and make decisions that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon’s advertising businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.
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
- 4+ 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
- Experience building highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets.
- Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
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