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Would you like to build highly available, scalable, distributed engineering systems for one of the largest data lakes in Amazon?

The Ads Central Datalake unifies Petabytes of data generated across the Ads pipeline such as campaigns, ad-serving, billing, clicks, impressions and more and into a single scalable repository. This is used across the organization to drive hundreds of thousands of complex queries for analysis, measurement and reporting decisions for our customers. The data lake enables customers such as data engineers, business analysts, ML engineers, research scientists, economists and data experts to collect what they need via world-class self-service tools.

Our mission is to provide unified experience for easy discovery and access to privacy compliant data that helps advertising business teams quickly generate insights and meet the data needs of Ads AI models with a vision to ‘build the world’s best & most cost efficient analytics platform’. A Sr SDE on this team has a unique opportunity to create tech strategies, design and innovate solutions for this scale, delivering robust and scalable services built over Java leveraging AWS services as well as innovate with big data technologies like Spark, EMR, Athena and more. You will create value that materially impacts the speed and quality of decision making across the organization resulting in tangible business growth.

Key job responsibilities

• Engage with key stakeholders such as Product, Program Managers, Senior Managers to understand customer, business requirements and brainstorm on solutions. Drive tech strategy and decision making.
• Apply your technical expertise to solve complex software problems in a fast-paced environment
• Strategize, design and launch services for medium-to-large scale projects across all areas of this Spektr Data lake core components. All with the goal of delivering a seamless experience to the customer.
• Provide guidance to and mentor other SDEs in the team. Ensure testability, maintainability and low operational footprint for the team.
• Participate in operational responsibilities with your team and ensure clear and accurate business metrics and operational metrics.

A day in the life As a Sr Software Development Engineer on this team, you will create strategies, software designs and implementation for medium-to-large scale projects across all ETL components that make up the customer data lifecycle and data compliance. You will work directly with product management and program management to understand and define requirements and apply your technical expertise to solve complex software problems in a fast-paced environment. You'll design and build software and systems for novel customer experiences, AWS services, and large-scale back-end web services, all with the goal of delivering a seamless experience to the customer.

About the team The Spektr Ads Data Lake team in Ads AI Core Infra org has a mission to provide unified experience for easy discovery and access to privacy compliant data that helps advertising business teams quickly generate insights and meet the data needs of Ads AI models with a vision to ‘build the world’s best & most cost efficient analytics platform.’

Basic Qualifications

• 6+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 6+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 6+ 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ 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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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

6+ years of non-internship professional software development experience 6+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience 6+ 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