The role
From Amazon's own posting.
WorldWide Amazon Stores FinTech (WWASFT) team is looking for an Data Engineer who is data-driven, uncompromisingly detail oriented, smart, efficient, and driven to help our business succeed. You have passion for technology. You are keen to leverage existing skills while trying new approaches. You are not tool-centric; you determine what technology works best for the problem at hand and apply it accordingly. You can explain complex concepts to your non-technical customers in simple terms.
As a Data Engineer, you will be working in one of the world's largest and most complex data warehouse environments. You will design, implement and support scalable data infrastructure solutions to integrate with multi heterogeneous data sources, aggregate and retrieve data in a fast and safe mode, curate data that can be used in reporting, analysis, machine learning models and ad-hoc data requests. You will be exposed to all AWS big data technologies. You should have excellent business and communication skills to be able to work with business owners and Tech leaders to gather infrastructure requirements, design data infrastructure, build up data pipelines and data-sets to meet business needs. You stay abreast of emerging technologies, investigating and implementing where appropriate.
Key job responsibilities
- Design and develop the pipelines required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL, Python and AWS big data technologies.
- Oversee and continually improve production operations, including optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, code deployments, bug fixes and overall release management and coordination.
- Establish and maintain best practices for the design, development and support of data integration solutions, including documentation.
- Work closely with Product teams, Data Scientists, Software developers and Business Intelligence Engineer to explore new data sources and deliver the data.
- Able to read, write, and debug data processing and orchestration code written Python/Scala etc following best coding standards (e.g. version controlled, code reviewed, etc.)
- 3+ years of data engineering experience
- Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
- Experience building/operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets
- Experience in at least one modern scripting or programming language, such as Python, Java, Scala, or NodeJS
- 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)
- Experience working on and delivering end to end projects independently
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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