Data Engineer II, Amazon Key

Amazon.com Services LLC • Full-time • Seattle, Washington State, United States • $118.90k - $205.60k / year • 19h ago

DESCRIPTION

We are actively seeking a motivated and multi-talented individual who is passionate, highly autonomous and have deep expertise in the design, creation, and management of large and complex datasets. You should be an authority at crafting, implementing, and operating stable, scalable solutions to flow huge amounts of data from production systems into the Redshift cluster, and build complex transforms to compute and store new data developed by the software teams.

Key job responsibilities
As Data Engineer, you develop, review technical design of and enhance data management solutions supporting the reporting Tools. You should excel in the design, creation, management, and business use of large data sets ,deliver data engineering initiatives and build end-to-end analytical solutions that are highly available, scalable, stable, secure, and cost-effective.

A day in the life

Develop new data engineering patterns that leverage new cloud architectures
Build and deliver high quality data solutions to support data scientists, engineers and analysts.
Interface with software development teams to extract, transform, and load data from a wide variety of data sources.
You will work closely with the Business Intelligence Engineers, Product Managers, Software Development teams and other business stakeholders on many non-standard and unique business problems and use creative problem solving to deliver actionable output in data gathering, transformation, ingestion and storage.

About the team
Amazon Key team’s mission is to provide Amazon with 1-click access to every customer's doorstep. We are inventing the next-generation smart delivery operation technologies in IoT (Internet-of-Things). We develop technology-based solutions matching customer needs and delivery capacity with precision and efficiency, and expanding and transforming delivery experience with unprecedented quality, productivity and scale.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

3+ years of data engineering experience
Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
Experience with SQL
Bachelor's degree
3+ years of non-internship professional industry experience in software development, data engineering or related field with a track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets
Experience in one or more of: Python, R, Bash, or other scripting language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Master's degree in computer science, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, IT or equivalent
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)
Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
Strong business acumen, proven ability to influence others, strong attention to detail, excellent organization skills, and ability to manage multiple projects

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $118,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $205,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.