Data Engineer II, Alexa AI Developer Tech

Alexa+ is our next-generation assistant powered by generative AI. Alexa+ is more conversational, smarter, and personalized, and it gets things done. Alexa+ is a next‑generation product designed to be instantly familiar, always ready to help or entertain on any device. “Alexa AI Developer Tech” is at the core of this vision. It is a close‑knit team dedicated to providing software developers with the tools, primitives, and services they need to easily create engaging customer experiences that expand the wealth of information, products, and services available on Alexa+.

We’re working hard, having fun, and making history; come join us!

Key job responsibilities

• As a Data Engineer, you take a long‑term view of your team’s data solutions and how they fit into the team’s architecture. You anticipate data access patterns and remove bottlenecks from their systems. You ensure your team’s data is auditable, available, and accessible. You proactively fix data architecture deficiencies and propose larger projects, which may require the work of other teams.
• You understand the business impact of your systems and show good judgment when making technical trade‑offs between your team’s short‑term technology needs and long‑term business needs. You are a key influencer in team strategy. You drive mindful discussions with customers and peers.
• Your code submissions and approach to work are exemplary – your data solutions are easily usable by customers, inventive, secure, easily maintainable, appropriately scalable, and extensible. You drive data engineering best practices (e.g., data discovery, naming conventions, operational excellence, and data security) and set standards.
• When confronted with discordant views, you can find the best way forward and influence others to follow that path (build consensus). Your presence strengthens the team, but the team does not rely on your continued presence to be successful.

A day in the life

A typical day will start with a morning huddle to catch up on what you and your team worked on the previous day. This is usually followed by white‑board design discussions on the problems the team is working on, with the afternoon mostly spent on project design and implementation work with a heavy dose of code reviews from and for your team along the way. We are a fun, close‑knit team where everyone is ready to roll up their sleeves and help each other out, push boundaries, and have fun doing it!

About the team

Alexa AI Developer Tech is an organization within Alexa on a mission to empower developers to create delightful and engaging experiences by making Alexa more natural, accurate, conversational, and personalized.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of data engineering experience
• 4+ years of SQL experience
• Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
• 2+ years of reparation of data for direct use in visualization tools like Tableau

Preferred Qualifications

• 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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