Data Engineer II, OpsTech Team, OTS Anchor Team
Austin, TX - USA
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Job Summary
As a Data Engineer you will build and evolve scalable data platforms that power analytics machine learning and AI driven experiences across Amazons global fulfillment and maintenance networks. You will design high performance data pipelines create trusted data products and work with Solution Architects Data Engineers Applied Scientists and Business Intelligence Engineers to turn complex operational data into intelligence that can be used by both people and AI systems.
You will help shape modern data engineering practices across OpsTech including automated data quality observability lineage data contracts orchestration and intelligent pipeline operations. Your work will provide the trusted data foundation behind AI agents machine learning systems operational analytics and automated decision making at global scale.
This is a high impact individual contributor role with significant opportunity to expand your technical scope and influence how OpsTech builds the next generation of data and AI capabilities.
Key job responsibilities
Build scalable data pipelines and platforms that transform complex operational data into trusted AI ready data products.
Power AI agents machine learning systems and intelligent automation with reliable data context and semantic layers.
Develop batch and streaming architectures that deliver timely operational signals for analytics detection diagnosis and decision making.
Create reusable datasets and data products that support analytics experimentation production models and operational applications.
Build feature pipelines training datasets and production workflows that connect data engineering with machine learning and AI.
Improve platform reliability through automated data quality observability lineage testing and anomaly detection.
Design semantic models and metrics that give operators leaders analysts and AI systems a consistent understanding of the business.
Partner with Data Scientists ML Engineers Business Intelligence Engineers Solution Architects Program Managers and operations teams to deliver measurable business impact.
Raise the engineering bar by improving scalability maintainability governance and development standards across OpsTech.
Explore emerging data and AI technologies and help shape the next generation of OpsTech data platforms.
A day in the life
You will work closely with Data Engineers Data Scientists ML Engineers Business Intelligence Engineers Solution Architects Program Managers and operations teams across OpsTech.
Your day may include designing a new data pipeline reviewing architecture for an AI powered application improving the reliability of a critical dataset or working with partners to understand an operational problem and turn it into a scalable data solution.
You will spend time building and improving data products used by analysts operators leaders machine learning systems and AI agents. You may investigate data quality issues optimize large scale processing workflows improve observability or develop new semantic models that make complex operational data easier to understand and use.
You will also participate in design reviews code reviews technical discussions and planning sessions while owning projects from initial problem definition through production launch.
The problems are varied technically challenging and directly connected to how Amazon operates at global scale.
- 3 years of data engineering experience
- 1 years of developing and operating large-scale data structures for business intelligence analytics using ETL/ELT processes experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems Mathematics or a related field
- Experience with data modeling warehousing and building ETL pipelines
- Experience with Python in a data engineering environment including building data processing pipelines automation and testing
- 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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at TX Austin - 132100.00 - 178800.00 USD annually
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