Collaborate with engineers across Ads, Customer Trust, and identity-owning upstream systems to ensure Traffic's design decisions support downstream consumers
Contribute to compliance initiatives (GDPR, ePrivacy) and scalability efforts for high-traffic events like live sports
Maintain sound operational practices — alarms, telemetry, runbooks — for a system where data freshness and accuracy directly impact billing
Mentor peers through design reviews, code reviews, and knowledge sharing
A day in the life
On a typical day you might start with a stand-up to align on priorities, then dive into building or extending a Spark pipeline to handle a new decoration requirement. After lunch, you could be debugging a data freshness issue against a tier-one SLA, tracing it through the ingestion path to a root cause. Between coding, you'll review pull requests, participate in design discussions for upcoming compliance or scalability work, and collaborate with downstream consumers to understand how they use your datasets.
About the team
The Traffic Applications team owns the data ingress system for all of Amazon Ads — ingesting hundreds of billions of ad events daily, decorating them with dimensional and identity data, and publishing structured traffic and billing datasets to consumers across the Ads ecosystem. The system operates under strict SLAs for data freshness and accuracy on tier-one advertising metrics, owning three of the five metrics used for billing. As the first MADS system to encounter regulatory and identity changes, Traffic's architectural decisions propagate across the entire MADS stack, making design choices here uniquely consequential.
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 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
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
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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USA, WA, SEATTLE - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
