Software Dev Engineer, Measurement, Ad Tech, and Data Science

Are you excited about operating at Internet scale? Inventing how ads performance is measured in the online retail world? Growing and learning from the world class engineers? If so, we want to hear from you! We need software engineers with strong fundamentals and an interest in working with data. Whether you’re just starting out or have years of experience to draw from, we have a place for you–we’re committed to helping nurture people at all stages of their career.


Key job responsibilities
You will be responsible for designing and developing software products that provide measurement data to a wide set of users across all of Amazon's advertising suite. You will be able to demonstrate a variety of architectural approaches and design patterns and have a demonstrated competence in designing maintainable and scalable software written in a high-level language. You will show your ability to adapt to changing technical environments and devise creative solutions to vexing software problems. You will encounter some of the toughest and most inspiring technical challenges of your career as you build petabyte-scale services, invent new big data paradigms, and scale for extreme growth.

A day in the life
We enable advertisers to optimize ad spend and allocate budgets effectively by providing accurate, actionable and timely conversion measurement for all Amazon ad products. We produce the estimates that are fastest in the industry without compromising quality. We apply the latest AWS big data and machine learning technologies on over 50 billion new events per day, operating petabyte size clusters.

This team publishes the metrics used by advertisers and systems within Amazon to analyze the performance of their investment in ads. Our charter is focused on distributing conversions estimated by a variety of techniques, to multiple systems with challenging requirements.

About the team
We are a company of builders who bring varying backgrounds, ideas, and points of view to inventing on behalf of our customers. Our diverse perspectives come from many sources including gender, race, age, national origin, sexual orientation, culture, education, and professional and life experience. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and always look for ways to scale our impact as we grow. You can read more here.

Amazon has 13 affinity groups, also known as employee resource groups, which bring Amazon employees together across businesses and locations around the world. Some examples include the Black Employee Network (BEN), Amazon Women in Engineering (AWE), and Indigenous@Amazon.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Boulder, CO, USA

Basic Qualifications

- 2+ 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
- Experience using big data technologies (Spark, EMR, Presto, etc.)
- Knowledge of data management fundamentals and data storage principles
- Knowledge of distributed systems as it pertains to data storage and computing

Preferred Qualifications

- 4+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Masters degree in Computer Science, Math or Physics or a related field
- Experience in the advertising or search industries
- Experience building software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Experience in databases, analytics, big data systems or business intelligence products
- Experience with building high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems.
- Deep hands-on technical expertise, excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with Agile software development techniques.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $115,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographi