There are now more than 1.3 million Amazonians worldwide. As part of People eXperience and Technology organization, the Amazon Talent Solutions team’s mission is to create innovative, science-based, and inclusive products and experiences for all Amazonians to help us become “Earth’s Best Employer.”
We are seeking a highly motivated Data Engineer for a cross functional Data Foundations team in the Integrated Talent Development Systems (ITDS) organization. In this role, you will define and deliver streaming and batch ingestion architectures that unify service data domains into a cross-cutting talent data model that is vended for both analytics and operational use cases, powering 100s of downstream integrations. This role requires deep expertise with data processing, storage, and vending technologies. You will explore the cutting edge and apply it to solve scale and performance challenges inherent to horizontal data services.
Key job responsibilities
As a Data Engineer, you will/may:
• Design, implement, and automate deployment of our distributed system for collecting and processing log events from multiple sources.
• Design data schema and operate internal data warehouses and SQL/NoSQL database systems.
• Own the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, and dashboards that engineers, analysts, and data scientists use to drive key business decisions.
• Monitor and troubleshoot operational or data issues in the data pipelines.
• Drive architectural plans and implementation for future data storage, reporting, and analytic solutions.
• Develop code based automated data pipelines able to process millions of data points.
• Improve database and data warehouse performance by tuning inefficient queries.
• Work collaboratively with Business Analysts, Data Scientists, and other internal partners to identify opportunities/problems.
• Provide assistance with troubleshooting, researching the root cause, and thoroughly resolving defects in the event of a problem.
