Data Engineer, Conversational Shopping Data Engineering

Our organization builds the data foundations that power the future of online shopping. With ever expanding selection, and ambient computing looming on the horizon, our mission is to build a new shopping experience, beyond search & browse, helping busy customers easily find low-regret products that meet their in-the-moment need. You will have opportunity to closely work with teams who are building Agentic AI powered CX.

An ideal individual is someone who has deep data engineering skills around ETL, data modeling, database architecture and big data solutions. This individual should have strong business judgement, excellent written and verbal communication skills.


Key job responsibilities
- We're looking for an intermediate-level Data Engineer to design and implement data products and solutions that power our shopping platforms.
- You'll own medium to large data initiatives, participate in architectural discussions, build data systems that can scale to PB and streaming data with 100K TPS
- You will be responsible for building data products that power mission critical analytical reports and metrics for Amazon AI products that are viewed at the highest levels in the organization.
- You should have deep expertise in the design, creation, management, and business use of extremely large datasets.
- This role involves building scalable data systems while maintaining high standards of data quality and reliability.
- You will utilize Agentic AI to build data products and solutions
- You will mentor entry-level engineers.

A day in the life
This data engineer designs, builds, and maintains scalable data pipelines that transform raw information into reliable, high-quality datasets for analytics and machine learning. Each day involves design discussion with engineering teams for instrumentation, seek out innovative approaches to design/update data flows, and collaborating with with other internal teams to integrate your data products with theirs and ensure timely, trustworthy data delivery.

About the team
Our organization builds the data foundations that power the future of online shopping. With ever expanding selection, and ambient computing looming on the horizon, it's time to create a new shopping experience, beyond search & browse, helping busy customers easily find low-regret products that meet their in-the-moment need. It's time to leverage big data and machine learning to generate relevant and trustworthy recommendations for billions of shopping journeys through billions of products, and to make it easy and natural for customers to discover those recommendations. We are seeking the industry's best to help us create new ways to interact, search and shop.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of data engineering experience
- 4+ years of SQL experience
- Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby

Preferred Qualifications

- 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)

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