Data Engineer- Data Science Focus, Ads Science Analysis & Tech (ASAT)

Entry-level Data Engineer with a Data Science focus supporting Amazon Ads analytics, collaborating with product and engineering to define data logging and KPIs. This onsite role is based in Palo Alto, CA, with a salary range of USD 111,400 to 185,000 per year and a minimum of 1 year of experience.

Responsibilities

• Analyze data trends regarding supply, optimization, ad load, and advertising mix effects that affect advertiser performance and contribute to achieving advertiser goals
• Present papers to senior leaders on issues like feature development impact on identity recognition rates, and changes of ad selection systems to improve fill rate highlighting insights that will inform our business development and engineering roadmaps
• Formalize our analytics approach to Ads auctions by analyzing bid spreads, auction depth, and simulating impacts of potential auction structure changes
• Identify, standardize, and operationalize KPIs to effectively measure the performance of all systems involved in ad serving, and use trend insights to inform business priorities
• Partner with engineering teams to define data logging requirements and getting these prioritized in engineering roadmaps
• Validate financial models through analysis
• Develop and own ad revenue and supply intelligence analytics decks that provide ongoing deep-dives

Requirements

• 1+ years of data engineering experience
• Experience with SQL
• Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines

Technologies

• SQL
• Python
• R
• GitHub

Benefits

• Sign-on payments
• Restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Mental Health Support
• Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

Description

We are seeking a recent college graduate (undergrad) who has traversed their academic career learning and experimenting with AI. We want you to bring this new way of thinking to Amazon Ads! You will use these skills to further the development and application of analytics methods to examine the complex data flows of Amazon Ads and to translate deep-dives into actionable insights for our product teams. In this role you will develop new tools to analyze our advertising data to help improve the perf

A Day in the Life

• The Ads Scientist will work closely with business leaders and engineers on developing common data architecture that will optimize our data logging at different grains, and will allow data interoperability from bid flow to optimization to campaign delivery. The candidate will then analyze the data and present papers and ongoing reports on actionable insights.

About the Team

The Ads Science Product Team's Mission: Work alongside those who need product data to apply objective perspective and business logic to uncover insights, advise strategic decisions, and adjust to industry changes.