Job Description
**Software Development Engineer for Analytics & Data Management** Build highly available, scalable, and distributed engineering systems for one of the largest data lakes in Amazon, handling Petabyte-scale data.
Job Description
Would you like to design and innovate solutions for a data lake that unifies Petabytes of data generated across the Ads pipeline? The Analytics & Data Management (ADM) team owns the central data lake for Advertising, unifying data into a single scalable repository used across the organization to drive complex queries for analysis, measurement, and reporting decisions.
The data lake enables customers to collect what they need via world-class self-service tools. ADM is building the next version of its data lake for 5x growth, and an SDE on the ADM team has a unique opportunity to design and innovate solutions for this scale, delivering robust and scalable microservices built over Java and AWS, 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 Responsibilities
- Engage with key decision makers to understand customer requirements and brainstorm on solutions.
- Design, code, and deploy components and micro-services for the core job management pipeline.
- Ensure testability, maintainability, and low operational footprint for your code.
- Participate in operational responsibilities with your team.
- Innovate on AWS technology to improve latency, reduce cost, and operations.
A Day in the Life
- Focus on core engineering opportunities to guarantee system availability that matches our data growth.
- Work with a skilled team of engineers, managers, and decision makers to consistently meet customer demand.
- Automate monitoring of data availability, quality, and usability via simplified metrics and drive innovations to improve guarantees for our customers.
- Build frugal solutions that will help make Spektr data lake the cost-wise leanest data lake in Amazon.
About the Team
The mission of the Analytics & Data Management (ADM) team is to provide data that helps the advertising organization make informed analyses and decisions for our customers and to determine and deploy investments for future growth via a set of central and unified products and services.
Our team focuses on simplicity, usability, speed, compliance, cost efficiency, and enabling high-velocity decision making so our customers can generate high-quality insights faster.
Qualifications
- 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.
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 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.