Data Engineer, Analytics and Insights

$118,900 - $205,600/Yr

Amazon - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

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About the position

The Data Engineer position within the Advertising Analytics and Data Management team at Amazon focuses on building scalable data architecture to support performance advertising products. The role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to drive business decisions through data insights, utilizing advanced data engineering techniques and technologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve the current data architecture using AWS Redshift, AWS S3, AWS Aurora (Postgres) and Hadoop/EMR.
• Improve upon the data ingestion models, ETL jobs, and alarming to maintain data integrity and data availability.
• Stay up-to-date with advances in data persistence and big data technologies and run pilots to design the data architecture to scale with the increased data sets of advertiser experience.
• Partner with analysts across teams such as product management, operations, sales, finance, marketing and engineering to build and verify hypotheses to improve business performance.
• Manage weekly business reports via dashboards and analyze daily, weekly, and monthly performance reporting via Key Performance Indicators.

Requirements

• 3+ years of data engineering experience
• Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
• Experience with SQL

Nice-to-haves

• 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)

Benefits

• Full range of medical benefits
• Financial benefits including equity and sign-on payments
• Comprehensive employee benefits package