Sr. Data Engineer, Prime Video

The Prime Video Shopping organization is looking for a smart and ambitious individual to build and support the development of data infrastructure to bring new customer experiences to life.

This role will partner closely with product and data science to ensure the right instrumentation is in place. Working to both measure the performance of new products and services and set the foundation for the creation of new groundbreaking algorithms and data science that propel the customer experience into the future.

The ideal candidate thrives working with large volumes of data, enjoys the challenge of highly complex technical contexts, and is passionate about data and analytics.

The candidate is an expert within data modeling, ETL design and cloud / big-data technologies and passionately partners with the business to identify strategic opportunities where improvements in data infrastructure creates large-scale business impact.

The candidate should be a self-starter; comfortable with ambiguity, able to think big, and enjoy working in a fast-paced and global team.

It’s a big ask, and we’re excited to talk to those up to the challenge!

Key job responsibilities

• Build end-to-end data pipelines to ingest and transform data from different types of data sources and systems; from traditional ETL pipelines to event data streams
• Utilize data from disparate data sources to build meaningful datasets for analytics, reporting and ML use cases
• Evaluate and implement various big-data technologies and solutions (e.g. Redshift, Hive / EMR, Spark, SNS, SQS, Kinesis) to optimize processing of extremely large datasets
• Understand and analyze business processes, logical data models and relational database implementations
• Write high performing and optimized SQL queries
• Execute research projects, and generate practical results and recommendations
• Design and implement automated data processing solutions and data quality controls

About the team

Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience.

As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers.

You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.

We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers.

With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you!

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence or business analytics experience
• Knowledge of data mining techniques, predictive analytics, and statistical modeling
• Knowledge of distributed systems as it pertains to data storage and computing
• Experience in at least one modern scripting or programming language, such as Python, Java, Scala, or NodeJS

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree
• 7+ years of data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence or business analytics experience
• 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
• Experience with big data technologies such as : Hadoop, Hive, Spark, EMR
• Expert level skills writing and optimizing complex SQL
30+ days ago