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Passionate about Big Data and Distributed Systems? Interested in building new state-of-the-art products at Petabyte scale? Be part of a team of industry leading experts that operates one of the largest big data analytics systems at Amazon. We own the campaign reach reporting product for all of advertising and our team is pivotal in providing precise, actionable metrics that allow advertisers and their agencies to understand and optimize their media strategies across streaming, sponsored, and linear TV platforms. As an example, incremental reach is computed by in-house developed machine learning models that integrate Amazon’s first-party data with external agency’s linear-TV data. . We are applying the latest machine learning and AWS big data technologies available on terabytes of data a day (over 50B new events per day) operating Petabyte size clusters. We constantly invent on our cutting-edge event-driven architectures to stay ahead of growing scale. Our streaming data must always be the fastest, most high-fidelity data as it is critical to checking the heartbeat of a campaign and part of the measure of success for a campaign.

The charter of this team is focused on incremental reach measurement and planning for Amazon advertising products and media channels. As advertisers diversify their digital advertising portfolios through multiple channels to reach the largest number of potential customers, they want a holistic view of their unique audience reach and performance across those channels. By providing a unified view of both streaming and linear TV reach, our metrics help ensure that advertisers can assess the true incremental value of their streaming campaigns. Our solutions are designed to cater to a diverse set of sales teams, whom might require high-level insights on ongoing campaigns or sales planners who require detailed, reach measurement data for future campaign execution for all delivered traffic (including traffic without user identify) across their campaigns, and help them easily measure the effectiveness of their brand-awareness campaign. We serve some of the largest global advertisers and their agencies.

Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
- Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
- Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
- Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
- Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

A day in the life
The role of an SDE II on our team is critical to the success of our measurement and planning capabilities. SDE IIs are responsible for grooming product documents, designing, developing, and implementing the systems that underpin our incremental reach and reach and frequency products. This involves creating scalable, flexible architectures that can evolve as the needs of our clients and the industry change (i.e., worldwide expansion). They work closely with cross-functional teams, including product, data science, legal/privacy, and engineering teams, to ensure our systems are robust, reliable, and able to deliver insights with high accuracy and low latency. In addition to technical development, SDE IIs are expected to take ownership of continuous operational excellence, implementing runbooks, monitoring and alerting systems. Collaboration with science teams is also crucial, as it enables continuous improvement of our measurement models and methodologies.