Software Development Engineer, Reporting Data Platform

Every number an advertiser sees in Amazon Ads passes through our platform. We process 40 billion records a day and are building the next generation of this system on a Lakehouse architecture making it the data foundation for AI-powered advertising products that millions of advertisers depend on.

We need an engineer who wants to own that work write production code and ship systems at this scale. Youre joining at an exciting time: the team is building a new Lakehouse architecture that gives both human-facing reporting surfaces and AI agents the same governed queryable interface to advertising data. AI agents already query our platform at inference time to answer advertiser questions and power automated campaign management and that usage is growing fast. Youll build both the core platform and the AI-powered tooling that makes it easier to operate. Engineers on this team have already shipped autonomous operations agents and lineage tracing tools that are in production today.

Key job 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

About the team
We sit within Amazon Advertising and own the reporting data layer end to end. Our team is 13 engineers across two locations. Core technologies: Java Python TypeScript (AWS CDK) Apache Spark on EMR Apache Iceberg plus EKS DynamoDB Redshift and Athena. Senior engineers mentor newer team members and the growth path leads to owning platform-level initiatives setting architectural direction and becoming a technical point of contact across the organization.

- 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

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

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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 and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA SEATTLE - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually