Data Engineer II, Business Data Technologies

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Data Engineer II to design, develop, and operate large-scale analytics data structures within a cloud-based data lake environment. You will implement real-time and batch ingestion, align datasets to business questions, and collaborate with business owners across the organization.

You will work on end-to-end data pipelines, leveraging AWS tools, and mentor junior engineers while ensuring data assets are well-documented and scalable.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of data engineering experience.
• Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines.
• Ability to work with business owners to define key business questions and translate into datasets.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and operate large-scale data structures for analytics and deep learning.
• Implement real-time and batch data ingestion using AWS technologies and best practices.
• Translate business requirements into robust, scalable data pipelines and datasets.
• Mentor junior data engineers and document data assets.

Skills

Data pipeline design

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

Big data

Mentoring

Tools

Redshift

S3

AWS Glue

EMR

Kinesis

Firehose

Lambda

IAM roles

Job description

Description

Amazon’s eCommerce Foundation (eCF) organization is responsible for the core components that drive the Amazon website and customer experience. Serving millions of customer page views and orders per day, eCF builds for scale.

Key job responsibilities

As an Amazon.com Data Engineer II you will be working in one of the world's largest cloud-based data lakes. You should be skilled in the architecture of data warehouse solutions for the Enterprise using multiple platforms (EMR, RDBMS, Columnar, Cloud). You should have extensive experience in the design, creation, management, and business use of extremely large datasets. You should have excellent business and communication skills to be able to work with business owners to develop and define key business questions, and to build data sets that answer those questions. Above all you should be passionate about working with huge data sets and someone who loves to bring datasets together to answer business questions and drive change.

As a Data Engineer II on Amazon.com’s Business Data Technologies team, design, develop, implement, test, and operate large-scale, high-volume, high-performance data structures for analytics and deep learning. Implement data ingestion routines both real time and batch using best practices in data modeling, ETL/ELT processes leveraging AWS technologies and Big data tools. Gather business and functional requirements and translate these requirements into robust, scalable, operable solutions that work well within the overall data architecture. Analyze source data systems and drive best practices in source teams. Participate in the full development life cycle, end-to-end, from design, implementation and testing, to documentation, delivery, support, and maintenance. Produce comprehensive, usable dataset documentation and metadata. Evaluate and make decisions around dataset implementations designed and proposed by peer data engineers. Evaluate and make decisions around the use of new or existing software products and tools. Mentor junior data engineers.

About The Team

At BDT, We collect petabytes of data from thousands of data sources inside and outside Amazon including the Amazon catalog system, inventory system, customer order system, page views on the website and Alexa systems. We also support Amazon subsidiaries such as IMDB and Audible. We provide interfaces for our internal customers to access and query the data hundreds of thousands of times per day, using Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) Redshift, Hive, and Spark. We build scalable solutions that grow with the Amazon business.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of data engineering experience


• Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines

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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 132,100.00 - 178,800.00 USD annually

Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A10550254