AmazonSoftware Development Engineer, Advanced Analytics - LLD
Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer, Advanced Analytics - LLD in Seattle, United States. It pays $144k-$194k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
AI in this role
Build foundational infrastructure and data pipelines for petabyte-scale advertising log-level data and analytics.
We own and operate the premier advanced analytics capability within Amazon Ads, delivering innovative AI, modeling, and data solutions that help Holding Companies, independent agencies, technology integrators, and large-scale advertisers make smarter, faster, and more impactful advertising decisions. Log-level data — granular, non-aggregated, event-level information from ad servers, exchanges, and SSPs — provides advertisers with visibility into individual ad impressions, bid prices, viewability scores, and supply path. This is a greenfield infrastructure challenge at massive scale, and you'll be building it from the ground up.
Key job responsibilities
- Implement and maintain scalable data pipelines to ingest, process, and store petabyte-scale log-level advertising data from multiple sources (ad servers, exchanges, SSPs)
- Build ETL workflows that transform raw event-level data into queryable, analysis-ready formats following established architectural patterns and best practices
- Create and maintain APIs that enable analytics teams and data scientists to query log-level data efficiently
- Implement data quality checks, validation logic, and monitoring for data pipelines and services
- Optimize performance and cost efficiency of data processing jobs and queries
- Write clean, well-tested code and participate in code reviews to maintain high engineering standards
- Collaborate with senior engineers to contribute to design discussions and architectural decisions
- Debug and resolve production issues, participating in on-call rotations as needed
- Document systems, processes, and runbooks to support operational excellence
Basic 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
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational 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
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
Amazon 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 https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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 - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
How we rate this
Software Development Engineer, Advanced Analytics - LLD at Amazon rates 30 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Open the description and count.
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Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where etl was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where distributed systems was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where data pipelines was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where api development was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used SQL in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: ETL, Distributed Systems, Data Pipelines, API Development, and SQL. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them — a tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
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