Data Engineer, Prime Video - GSS Planning & Strategy

Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Prime Video seeks a data engineer to design and scale data infrastructure powering reporting, analytics and AI-enabled insights. You will build robust ETL/ELT pipelines, integrate data across marketing, finance, and operations, and strengthen data governance and instrumentation across the platform.

The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration with BI, analytics, and tech teams, and delivering scalable solutions in a fast-paced environment with a focus on AI enablement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 3+ years data engineering experience.
• Experience with Hadoop, Hive, Spark, or EMR.
• Experience with data modeling, warehousing, and building ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines for reporting and analytics.
• Architect data infrastructure for AI-enabled analytics and MCP.
• Build data lakes, warehouses, and APIs ensuring reliable access to clean data.
• Create logical data models to support self-service BI and forecasting.
• Establish data quality, governance, and lineage tracking.

Skills

Big data technologies

ETL/ELT pipelines

SQL / SparkSQL

Python

Data modeling

BI visualization

Cross-team collaboration

Software engineering practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Hadoop

Hive

Spark

EMR

Airflow

Tableau/QuickSight

Redshift

SageMaker

AWS

Job description

Prime Video offers customers a vast collection of movies, series, and sports—all available to watch on hundreds of compatible devices. U.S. Prime members can also subscribe to 100+ channels including Max, discovery+, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, BET+, MGM+, ViX+, PBS KIDS, NBA League Pass, MLB.TV, and STARZ with no extra apps to download, and no cable required. Prime Video is just one of the savings, convenience, and entertainment benefits included in a Prime membership. More than 200 million Prime members in 25 countries around the world enjoy access to Amazon's enormous selection, exceptional value, and fast delivery.

Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology, marketing, and operations teams are creating the best-in-class digital video experience. You'll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You'll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.

Within our Prime Video Global Operations team, we're looking for a results-driven Data Engineer to build and scale the data infrastructure backbone that powers our reporting, analytics, and AI-enabled insights capabilities. In this role, you will design and implement robust data pipelines, integrate data from marketing, business teams, finance, and cross-functional teams. You will also build AI/ML-enabled data solutions and architect the foundational data infrastructure that enables insights, planning, reporting mechanisms, and agentic AI-powered self-service analytics for Amazon PV Global Operations.

This individual has deep expertise in data engineering — including scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, data modeling, and architecting solutions that support high-impact business intelligence. You will be responsible for strengthening Prime Video's Global Marketing Operations data infrastructure, operational metrics pipelines, and capacity planning data systems. You will build automated, reliable, and performant data solutions that translate enterprise strategy into actionable forecasting, planning, and delivery frameworks. Your work will directly influence data-driven business decisions that result in quantifiable outcomes.

The ideal candidate has a strong sense of ownership, is self-driven, and loves to solve complex data challenges at scale. You will bring a mix of experience including data pipeline development, data modeling and governance, infrastructure automation, stakeholder collaboration, and process optimization, with a forward-looking mindset toward AI enablement. If you enjoy building the engineering foundation that powers next-generation analytics, working in a fast-paced dynamic environment, and being challenged by new problems, we'd like to speak with you!

Key job responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, automated data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes that ingest, transform, and deliver data to support business reporting and analytics needs.
• Architect data infrastructure for agentic AI and Model Context Protocols (MCP) — including structured pipelines, usage data capture, and systems that power AI-enabled self-service analytics and reporting.
• Build and maintain data lakes, data warehouses, and APIs ensuring reliable, performant access to clean, well-governed data. Optimize storage, queries, and AWS infrastructure costs.
• Create logical data models that drive physical design, enabling BI/analytics teams to build self-service reporting on a solid foundation. Support forecasting and capacity planning at scale.
• Establish data quality frameworks, monitoring, and alerting to ensure accuracy, completeness, and freshness. Drive governance best practices including lineage tracking, documentation, and access controls.
• Own instrumentation strategy for key platforms, ensuring comprehensive data capture across operational workflows.
• Partner cross-functionally with BI engineers, analysts, operations, science, and tech teams to translate data requirements into scalable solutions.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, statistics, computer science, mathematics or a related field
• 3+ years of data engineering experience
• 3+ years of experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Spark, or EMR.
• Experience with data modeling, warehousing, and building ETL/ELT pipelines.
• 4+ years of experience with one or more query languages (e.g., SQL, PL/SQL, DDL, HiveQL, SparkSQL, Scala).
• Experience with Python or another scripting language for data processing.
• Knowledge of data schema design including normalization, relational models, and dimensional models.
• Cross-team collaboration skills and effective written and verbal communication when interfacing with stakeholders, peers, and executives.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence.
• Experience using BI tools (e.g., Tableau, QuickSight) to visualize data.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Degree (MS) in engineering, technology, statistics, analytics, or finance.
• Experience using BI tools (e.g., Tableau, QuickSight) to visualize data.
• Experience developing, scaling, and governing global operations standards and infrastructure across matrixed organizations.
• Experience with ETL tools such as Informatica, Airflow, ODI, SSIS, BODI, or Datastage.
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS services including S3, Redshift, SageMaker, EMR, Kinesis, Lambda, and EC2.
• Experience in large-scale workforce, operations, or capacity planning functions.
• Experience in data mining and working with large-scale, complex datasets in a business environment.
• Experience in statistical analysis using tools such as R, SAS, or Matlab.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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USA, CA, Culver City - 132,100.00 - 178,800.00 USD annually

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

Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A10449267