Data Engineer, PXT Central Science — AWS & ML Pipelines

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

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a data engineer for the PXTCS team to enhance data architecture, standardize metrics, and build end-to-end data solutions across AWS.

You will collaborate with economists, data scientists, and software engineers to translate analytical requirements into production-ready pipelines, APIs, and features. The role emphasizes scalable pipelines, data quality, and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of data engineering experience.
• Experience with AWS data services and data modeling.
• Experience with ETL pipelines and data warehousing.

Responsibilities

• Data Pipeline Development: Design and maintain scalable data pipelines using native AWS services (Glue, EMR, Lambda); build monitoring and error handling for data workflows; optimize performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Model Productionization & API Development: Develop and maintain APIs and data serving layers that productionize science models for downstream consumption; build batch and real-time inference pipelines
• Data Integration & Quality: Build scalable feature extraction and processing frameworks for diverse data types; develop robust data quality and validation checks; create flexible schemas supporting evolving requirements
• Cross-team Collaboration: Partner with economics, data science, and software engineering teams to translate analytical requirements into production-ready solutions; participate in technical design reviews and architecture discussions
• Analytics & Infrastructure: Maintain layered data systems used by economists and scientists; build automated reporting solutions; work across multiple interconnected AWS accounts with security best practices

Skills

Software engineering best practices

Data engineering

Programming experience

Tools

AWS Glue

EMR

Redshift

S3

Lambda

Kinesis

IAM

FireHose

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a data engineer for the PXTCS team to enhance data architecture, standardize metrics, and build end-to-end data solutions across AWS.

You will collaborate with economists, data scientists, and software engineers to translate analytical requirements into production-ready pipelines, APIs, and features. The role emphasizes scalable pipelines, data quality, and cross-team collaboration.