What we're looking for
You are a creative, proven technical leader who thrives on ambiguity and loves building from zero-to-one. You bring deep expertise in distributed systems and large-scale data processing, strong analytical instincts, and the drive to ship high-quality solutions at pace. You think strategically about system architecture and dive deep into implementation details. You balance competing priorities with pragmatic trade-offs, communicate clearly across technical and business audiences, and hold yourself and your team to a high bar for code quality and operational excellence.
If you're excited by the chance to build foundational infrastructure that powers transparency across one of the world's largest advertising platforms, we'd love to talk.
Key job responsibilities
Design and build highly scalable, fault-tolerant data pipelines to ingest, process, and store petabyte-scale log-level advertising data from multiple sources including ad servers, exchanges, and SSPs
Architect distributed systems that enable real-time and batch processing of granular event-level data with sub-second latency requirements
Develop robust data quality frameworks to validate, cleanse, and enrich raw log data while maintaining data lineage and audit trails
Create efficient storage solutions optimized for both high-throughput writes and complex analytical queries across massive datasets
Build APIs and data access layers that enable downstream analytics, modeling, and reporting applications to leverage log-level data
Collaborate with data scientists, product managers, and business stakeholders to translate transparency and measurement requirements into technical solutions
Establish operational excellence practices including monitoring, alerting, and automated recovery mechanisms for mission-critical data infrastructure
Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the technical direction of the team through design reviews, code reviews, and architectural discussions
Drive innovation in data processing techniques, exploring emerging technologies and methodologies to improve system performance and capabilities
5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
5+ 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 contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems, or experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization of model execution
Experience using managed ML/AI solutions
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually
