Software Development Engineer - Big Data, Brand Metrics and Benchmarks
Amazon · New York, NY · 1 wk ago
Information TechnologyFull-time
About the role
Build the AI-agent-powered data platforms that process billions of events daily to help advertisers understand what "good" looks like. Sit at the intersection of petabyte-scale data engineering, real-time distributed systems, and innovative AI agent interfaces. This isn't a team that talks about AI — we're actively shipping it into production.
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, real-time data systems that power advertiser-facing measurement products and AI agent interfaces
- Own end-to-end delivery: requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support
- Build monitoring, alerting, and data quality frameworks that ensure reliability at petabyte scale
- Optimize distributed systems for performance, cost efficiency, and extensibility
- Contribute to our GenAI-accelerated development practices — from spec-driven development to autonomous testing tools
- Collaborate with scientists, product managers, and partner teams to translate complex measurement problems into elegant engineering solutions
- Navigate ambiguity and make sound technical decisions with incomplete information
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
Qualifications
- 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
Skills
- Experience with GenAI-driven development practices
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and make sound technical decisions with incomplete information
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
Pay
The base salary range for this position is $158,100.00 - $213,800.00 annually.
Schedule
Not specified