Senior AWS Data Reliability Engineer

Empower Retirement; Greenwood Village (CO); On-site; USD 106,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

401(k) with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Volunteer time

Parental leave

Disability insurance

BRGs

Job summary

Empower Retirement in Greenwood Village, CO is seeking a hands-on Data Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, stability, and operational excellence of our AWS-based data platform. You will operate, troubleshoot, and improve production data systems, ensuring pipelines and analytics meet critical SLAs.

You will collaborate with data and platform teams to diagnose issues, drive incident response, and implement durable fixes, backups, and observability improvements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with production data platforms in AWS.
• Experience building data pipelines and production exposure to failures.
• Strong Python and SQL in real data systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability and stability of production data pipelines and data platform services.
• Diagnose and resolve data pipeline failures, delays, and data quality issues in production environments.
• Investigate issues across distributed data systems (e.g., Spark/EMR workloads, ingestion pipelines, warehouse performance).
• Lead or support incident response, including triage, mitigation, and long-term resolution.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement durable fixes to prevent recurrence.
• Define and improve data SLAs (freshness, latency, completeness) and ensure adherence.
• Design and enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability for data systems.
• Develop automation and tooling to reduce operational toil and improve system resilience.
• Contribute to disaster recovery (DR) and resiliency planning, including backup validation and recovery workflows.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve pipeline design, reliability, and operational readiness.
• Create and maintain runbooks, SOPs, and operational documentation.
• Participate in occasional off-hours support for production data systems when required.

Skills

Python

SQL

Communication

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Tools

Spark/EMR

Redshift

DynamoDB

S3

Kafka/Kinesis

Job description

Empower Retirement in Greenwood Village, CO is seeking a hands-on Data Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, stability, and operational excellence of our AWS-based data platform. You will operate, troubleshoot, and improve production data systems, ensuring pipelines and analytics meet critical SLAs.

You will collaborate with data and platform teams to diagnose issues, drive incident response, and implement durable fixes, backups, and observability improvements.