Amazon Senior Data Engineer 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

377484042

Senior Data EngineerAs an Amazon Senior Data Engineer, you will solve unique and complex problems at a rapid pace, utilizing the latest technologies to create solutions that are highly scalable. You will find that there is an unlimited number of opportunities within Amazon, where developing your career across a wide range of teams is highly support-ed. We are committed to making your work experience as enjoyable as the experiences you’ll be creating for our customers.• Consumer Technology: Build new generation features and products for amazon.com, constantly im-proving the Customer and Seller experience for billions around the globe. Whether building site wide features such as reviews and recommendations, category specific software for the likes of Pharmacy, Electronics, Digital Software and Video Games or seller infrastructure, there are a variety of complex problems to tackle using a range of technologies in the design of your technical solutions.• Human Resources Technology: Create a seamless experience for millions of Amazonians and/or candi-dates. Whether supporting technologies for onboarding, time and attendance, compensation, ama-zon.jobs, or recruiting, you’ll deliver robust feature sets, elegant designs, intuitive user interfaces and systems that make it easy for Amazonians to excel at performing critical business functions.Work/Life BalanceMentorship & Career Growth
Key job responsibilities
• Set the technical strategy for the team
• Lead complex technical initiatives within the team
• Explore technical needs and bring solutions to the table
• Gather business and functional requirements and translate these requirements into robust, scalable, operable solutions with a flexible and adaptable data architecture.
• Assist in developing project plans and commitments, and then deliver consistently against those com-mitments.
• Build good working relationships within the team by communicating clearly both verbally and in writ-ing
• Continuously optimize solutions to improve overall Platform performance, availability and fault toler-ance
• Drive Operational excellence through metrics driven approach
• Understand customer pain points, build solutions to make large and/or complex data more accessible, understandable and usable by applications and teams
• Mentor and lead developers by cultivating curiosity, deep technical understanding through collabora-tion, code reviews, and leading by example.

- 5+ years of data engineering experience
- Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
- Experience with SQL
- Experience in at least one modern scripting or programming language, such as Python, Java, Scala, or NodeJS
- Experience mentoring team members on best practices

- Experience with big data technologies such as: Hadoop, Hive, Spark, EMR
- Experience operating large data warehouses