Software Development Engineer, Bidding Analytics and Metrics (BAM)
Top focus
The Bidding Analytics and Metrics (BAM) team’s charter is to own and enhance critical data architecture, pipelines, and reporting services, including supply-side and demand-side analytics. We develop and maintain experimentation and recommendation systems, providing actionable insights to advertisers and internal stakeholders for understanding performance and driving optimizations.
We’re seeking a skilled Software Engineer to empower our analytics organization by architecting robust, scalable systems that transform raw data into reliable, actionable business insights. You’ll collaborate with business leaders and data teams to design and implement high-performance data pipelines powering intuitive dashboards and reporting tools, and integrate advanced analytics—or AI-driven workflows—that enable data-informed decision-making across the ads tech organization
What You'll Do
- In this role, you will design and implement near real-time data processing systems to handle massive advertising data volumes (terabytes daily) with a focus on accuracy and scalability.
- You will own full-stack delivery—from requirements to deployment—of distributed systems managing critical metrics like campaign performance, bidding funnels, and supply health.
- Drive architecture decisions for data pipelines and transformation services while fostering code quality through reviews and mentorship, and collaborate cross-functionally to solve complex technical challenges
What We're Looking For
- We are seeking a software engineer who is user-obsessed and precision-driven—someone who can systematically unravel complex technical challenges and architect scalable, reliable data processing solutions. You should thrive at leading mission-critical engineering initiatives for an analytics platform, balancing competing priorities across product, data
- excelling in a fast-paced, high-impact environment where data integrity and system performance drive strategic outcomes. You'll join an established analytics team with a strong collaborative culture. You'll work alongside experienced professionals in an environment that encourages innovation and continuous learning. If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you! Key job responsibilities - Design and implement features for near real-time data processing systems handling terabytes of data per day - Own end-to-end delivery of software components: requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment
- operational support - Build and maintain distributed systems that process advertising data (campaign, ad line, bidding funnel, supply health) - Participate in on-call rotations and operational excellence initiatives to maintain 100% availability - Contribute to architecture decisions for data pipelines, caching layers
- data transformation services - Write high-quality, maintainable code with thorough unit and integration test coverage - Collaborate with partner teams across the ad serving stack (sub-ssytems like AAX/Cinder, troubleshooting, forecasting, pacing) - Mentor teammates and participate in code/design reviews
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience - 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience - 3+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience - 3+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems
- services using: C#, C++, Java
- Perl experience - 3+ years of Object Oriented Design experience - Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics
- a related field - Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing
- operations experience Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability
- 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
- 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
- parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits . USA, VA, Arlington - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually