Sr. SDE, Measurement, Ad Tech, and Data Science (MADS)

Are you passionate about Big Data and Distributed systems? Do you enjoy building new state-of-the-art products at internet scale? Come lead the innovation in ads measurement. This is a green field problem without a known answer or a pattern to follow.What you'll doYou will lead the design, launch, own and evolve software that computes impact of Amazon ads, working closely with other engineering teams and our top notch team of scientists. Thousands of advertisers will use your work every day to decide where to invest next, and need to know what was the impact of their ad spend. You'll evolve systems that produce a correct and actionable estimate, and give us confidence it is right. These are really hard questions that are unique to Amazon, so there isn't a blueprint you can copy. You'll build petabyte-scale scale measurement pipelines, as well as advance supporting services and frameworks. You will have background delivering highly distributed systems at scale, design patterns like SDKs, libraries, versioning, use AWS services like EMR, DynamoDB and S3 open source technologies such as Spark. You'll get feedback from principal and sr engineers, as well as help junior engineers grow. What we doWe enable advertisers to optimize ad spend and allocate budgets effectively by providing accurate, actionable and timely conversion measurement for all Amazon ad products, and for ads delivered by third parties. We use a combination of deterministic and machine learning-based techniques to produce the estimates that are fastest in the industry without compromising quality. We constantly invent on our cutting-edge event-driven architectures to stay ahead of growing scale. What we offerWe 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 job responsibilitiesLead the technical strategy of a business critical initiative to design, develop, launch and maintain measurement applications that compute accurate estimates of advertising impact. Work with the data to understand advertiser needs and develop most efficient ways of handling it. Write code in languages like Scala, Java or Python. Support and improve what you built. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 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 teamPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- 7+ 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 equivalentAmazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Created: 2025-05-14