Software Development Engineer, Customer Traffic Data

Amazon has a culture of data-driven decision-making and demands business intelligence that is timely, accurate, and actionable. The Customer Traffic Data team's role is to answer who did what, where and when it was done, and how key metrics were impacted. Ultimately, we want to answer why customer behavior changes, and how to influence it.

Our group is responsible for ingesting and processing big data sets of website and mobile traffic and interactions, in order to identify and understand customer behavior. By understanding traffic flows and customer behavior across Amazon websites, Customer Traffic Data creates multi-million-dollar business opportunities allowing Amazon strong and sustained growth rates. Our traffic, customer interaction and attribution datasets power personalization, A/B testing, content optimization, internationalization, marketing spend allocation, product demand, customer conversion, selection reach and application performance (latency, errors, crashes).

We are looking for a passionate software development engineer to help us develop a robust, scalable distributed system supporting the needs of our analytics platform (data streaming, storage, processing) on top of native AWS technologies. We are innovating through the architecture decisions we make, systems and components that we build which always push the limits of what's been done before in order to keep the pace with our track record of double the load at half the costs. As part of this team you will share in the ownership of the technical vision and direction for advanced analytics products. You will work with top-notch technical professionals developing complex systems at scale and with a focus on sustained operational excellence.

Above all, you should bring your passion for design, optimizations, scalability, operational excellence and clean code. Excited? We are looking forward to you joining us

Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will have the opportunity to display your skills in the following areas:
- Design, implementation, and delivery of software in ambiguous and complex problem spaces (at the team level). Trade-offs, you will work on complex problems but your solutions must be as simple as possible.
- Work backwards from customer needs into improvements, features and new components for the platform
- Influence on your team technical and business strategy.
- Contribute in identifying and solving software deficiencies or areas where your team's software bottlenecks the innovation.
- Think in terms of architecture, not just code.
- Think through functional, technical, security, performance, and scaling requirements.
- Explore and learn AWS technologies to provide new capabilities and increase efficiency.
- Ability to resolve the root cause of complex problems, leaving software better and easier to maintain.

About the team
The Data Mobility Solutions (DMS) team, part of Customer Traffic Data, builds systems that efficiently move and integrate Petabytes of data across Amazon's platforms. We operate robust data lakes and pipelines, enabling informed decision-making and data-driven innovation throughout the company. Join us to work on scalable, reliable, and secure data management solutions that drive Amazon's growth.

Basic Qualifications:
- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

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