Careers at Amazon – Data Engineer

Job Description:

Amazon is seeking a Data Engineer to build the data repository for an emerging business in transportation. We are an entrepreneurial team looking for someone who adheres to the highest data quality & governance standards, and embraces ambiguity.

Job Responsibilities:

• You will own the global data model and data acquisition strategy for our analytical platform.
• You will decide which technologies we deploy as part of our data pipeline.
• You will establish the standards we follow when introducing new datasets to our feature repository.
• You will be responsible for incrementally advancing the platform as a single source of truth for statistical models, distributed systems, and individual users.
• You will create a self-service data acquisition strategy that serves technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You will have access to the technologies and support you need to succeed.
• You will use AWS-based infrastructure including: Redshift, Secret Manager, Glue ETL, Spectrum, and Athena.
• You will conduct native AWS migrations.
• You will use distributed compute instances, Lambda, and S3.
• You will receive support from the Sr. Data Engineer, Data lead, and broader data community.

Job Requirements:

• Proven success in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe data modeling decisions and data engineering strategy
• Experience in at least one modern object-oriented programming language (Ruby, Python, Java)
• Experience providing technical leadership and mentor other engineers for the best practices on the data engineering space
• Ability to work on a diverse team or with a diverse range of coworkers
• Experience in working and delivering end-to-end projects independently.
• Experience with Redshift, Oracle, NoSQL etc.
• Experience building/operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets
• 2+ years of experience analyzing and interpreting data and experience with Redshift, Oracle, NoSQL etc.
• Knowledge of distributed systems as it pertains to data storage and computing
• 3+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar role
• Experience with data modeling, data warehousing, and building ETL pipelines
• Experience building data products incrementally and integrating and managing datasets from multiple sources
• Experience using Linux/UNIX

Job Details:

Company: Amazon

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Bellevue, WA, USA

Application Deadline: N/A

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