Data Engineer, WW Promotions Data and Insights

Amazon Jobs; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 143,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Vancouver seeks a Data Engineer to develop scalable data processing systems using AWS technologies. The ideal candidate will have over 3 years of data engineering experience, proficiency in Python, and the ability to optimize data pipelines. This position offers a competitive salary ranging from $103,300 to $172,600 annually, along with a comprehensive benefits package. Join the WW Promotions Data and Insights team to drive innovative data solutions.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Equity and sign-on payments

Qualifications

• 3+ years of data engineering experience.
• Experience building ETL pipelines.
• Familiarity with non-relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate scalable data processing systems.
• Develop custom data processing frameworks.
• Optimize data pipeline performance and reliability.

Skills

Data engineering experience

Proficiency in Python

Expertise in AWS technologies

Data modeling

Tools

AWS Redshift

AWS S3

AWS Glue

Airflow

Job description

Overview

Are you passionate about developing the next generation of data infrastructure capable of handling complex, mission-critical data pipelines and analytics workloads? Do you want to build next generation data engineering solutions that leverage the latest AWS technologies to process a broad range of business and customer data?

Join our WW Promotions Data and Insights team, where you will have the opportunity to continuously improve the systems that enable Amazon's promotional strategies across every major shopping event worldwide.

Responsibilities

1. Design, build, and operate highly scalable, fault-tolerant data processing systems using modern AWS services like Redshift, S3, Glue, EMR, Kinesis, and Lambda, and orchestration systems using Airflow
2. Leverage your expertise in Python, Scala, or other modern programming languages to develop custom data processing frameworks and automation tools
3. Collaborate closely with data scientists, analysts, and product managers to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
4. Continuously optimize data pipeline performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency using best practices in CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code
5. Mentor junior engineers and share your knowledge of data engineering best practices
6. Stay up-to-date with the latest big data technologies and architectural patterns, and drive the adoption of innovative solutions

A day in the life

1. Identify key areas of concerns/limitations with current architecture and build next generation frameworks and systems that enable data teams to deliver on future needs
2. Build automated data quality monitoring, audit and reconciliation mechanisms
3. Develop and maintain core infrastructure and services for multiple data engineering teams
4. Improve efficiency of operations in terms of cost, effort and reliability

About the team

Promotions reinforce a positive perception of Amazon’s price leadership with shoppers by complementing our everyday great prices with time-bound discounts on a broad selection of high-quality products. For Selling Partners (SPs), promotions create incremental demand for their products and increase their share of voice, clear inventory, and drive traffic to new selection. WW Promotions owns the sourcing and execution of promotions at Amazon and we are their data & analytics team. We serve as the central stewards of promotions data, delivering trusted and governed datasets that power product development, machine learning models, and business analytics across the organization.

• 3+ years of data engineering experience
• Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
• Experience with AWS technologies like Redshift, S3, AWS Glue, EMR, Kinesis, FireHose, Lambda, and IAM roles and permissions
• Experience with non-relational databases / data stores (object storage, document or key-value stores, graph databases, column-family databases)

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The base salary for this position ranges from $103,300/year up to $172,600/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.