Data Engineer Ii, Perfect Order Experience

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Seattle, WA · Data Science

This role focuses on building and maintaining data engineering platforms, data pipelines, and data clusters to support analytics and business needs within Amazon's Perfect Order Experience team. It involves working with large datasets, AWS technologies, and collaborating with engineering and science teams to implement analytics algorithms. The goal is to provide buyers with a perfect order experience by leveraging data and AI to detect and prevent risk.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, build, and maintain an analytical platform providing access to large datasets and computing power.
  2. Design, build and maintain data clusters providing access and insights for business needs.
  3. Design build and maintain data pipelines to transport relevant data to the right destinations.
  4. Implement data structures using best practices in data modeling.
  5. Collaborate with Engineering and Science teams to implement advanced analytics algorithms that exploit our rich data sets for statistical analysis, prediction, clustering and machine learning.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of SQL experience
  • 5+ years of data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence or business analytics experience
  • Experience in data warehouse technical architectures, data modeling, infrastructure components, ETL/ ELT and reporting/analytic tools and environments, data structures and hands-on SQL coding
  • Knowledge of databases, storage and big data concepts
  • Experience building/operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets
  • Bachelor's degree or above in a quantitative/technical field such as computer science, engineering, statistics
  • Demonstrable advanced skills and experience using SQL with large data sets (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server, Redshift)

Nice to have

  • 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 with both Batch and Real Time data processing systems

What the JD emphasized

  • large datasets
  • data engineering
  • AWS technologies