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Description

The People Analytics, Innovation, and Research (PAIR) team within PXT supports two of Amazon’s most exciting businesses: Devices & Services (the innovators behind Echo, Kindle, Ring and Kuiper Low-orbit satellite program) and Artificial General Intelligence (the team behind Generative AI foundational model development at Amazon). As a PAIR Data Engineer, you will collaborate with a talented team of researchers, software development engineers, business intelligence engineers and analysts in developing products to help shape the strategic direction and inform talent decisions at the highest levels of some of the most transformative businesses at Amazon. You bring to the table your expertise in efficient DW architecture including technologies such as AWS Redshift, Glue, Lambda, S3 and Amazon internal technologies. You excel in the design, procurement, management, security and business use of extremely large datasets.

Key job responsibilities

• Independently work with PAIR analysts and engineers to curate datasets for Quicksight and web-based analytical products

• Administer team-owned Redshift resources with a focus on performance, security and design

• Onboard and manage HR datasets from partner teams, working with them to gain approvals and establish the data contract.

• Track changes in team-needed dataset and manage migrations to ensure zero downtime in products.

• Create novel pipelining strategies leveraging a wide-variety of proprietary and third-party solutions in order to meet specific business needs of each delivery

• Implement and maintain security protocols for ensuring security of highly-confidential data

• Foster strong partnerships among other Data Engineering teams across PXT

• Learn and understand a growing range of Amazon and specifically PXT data resources and discover how, and when to use which data sets.

A day in the life

• Work closely with PAIR engineers, analysts and scientists in curating datasets to be used in novel people products.

• Use your skills in various DE technologies to devise strategies for pipelining datasets from a wide variety of sources.

• Measure and manage performance of a Redshift cluster with tens of users from multiple teams.

• Identify short, medium and long-term work items for yourself and the team to raise the bar on handling and security of data the team uses.

About the team

The PAIR team is a multi-functional team which leverages diverse skills of engineers, analysts and researchers in order to curate an optimal set of tools and innovative products for our customers in PXT and in the D&S and AGI businesses.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of data engineering experience

• Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines

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)

• 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

• • Extensive experience in data accuracy monitoring strategies.

• • Experience with Large Language Models (LLM) and agent creation.

• • Experience with one or more of the statistical modeling languages/toolboxes

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $118,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $205,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.