Software Development Engineer, Measurement, AdTech, and Data Science at Amazon
Seattle, WA
$143,700–$194,400from the description
Jul 10, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A software engineering role focused on building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines that compute advertising conversion metrics across Amazon's ad products. Day-to-day work involves designing distributed systems using tools like Spark, EMR, and Java to process tens of billions of events daily, collaborating with scientists and product managers, and upholding engineering standards such as testing and monitoring. Suits engineers with a background in big data and distributed systems.
Mid level · 3+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 7,900 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 5,900–10,300
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The minimum gate is '3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience' — this maps to a Mid-level band despite the large-scale, high-complexity environment described.
Java is the only named language in the required responsibilities section ('Build and maintain petabyte-scale data pipelines and services using technologies like Spark, EMR, and Java'); Spark and EMR appear in the same sentence but under a narrative responsibilities block rather than a formal 'Required Qualifications' heading. However, Java is called out with firm language in the job duties, so it is treated as a hard gate.
Big data technologies (Spark, Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Lucene/SOLR, Storm/Samza) and AWS appear only under 'Preferred Qualifications' with a 2-year experience ask — all marked preferred accordingly.
EMR, Kinesis, AWS Batch, and Presto appear only in the 'About the team' stack narrative — marked preferred.
A Bachelor's degree is listed only under 'Preferred Qualifications', so the degree requirement is set to None.
The alt SOC (15-1243 Database Architects) reflects the heavy data-pipeline and petabyte-scale data engineering emphasis; however, the role also builds services and applies general software engineering patterns, making 15-1252 the stronger primary fit.
Compensation includes sign-on payments and RSUs in addition to the stated base salary range.
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