Data Engineer, Amazon
Early Career - 2026
CA$97.1k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Be an early applicant
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$97.1k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- We’re on the lookout for the curious, those who think big and want to define the world of tomorrow
- Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields
- Are 18 years of age or older
- Experience with data mining and data transformation
- Experience with database, data warehouse or data lake solutions
- Experience building data pipelines or automated ETL processes
- Experience with SQL
- Experience with one or more scripting language (e.g., Python, KornShell)
- Work Monday-Friday, up to 40 hours per week
Desirable
- Experience with AWS
- Experience from previous technical internship(s) or demonstrated project experience
- Knowledge of basics of designing and implementing a data schema like normalization, relational model vs dimensional model
- Experience with big data processing technology (e.g., Hadoop or ApacheSpark), data warehouse technical architecture, infrastructure components, ETL, and reporting/analytic tools and environments
- Can articulate the basic differences between datatypes (e.g. JSON/NoSQL, relational)
What the job involves
- At Amazon, our tech isn't just a tool, it's your playground
- Our engineers work on scalable systems, cloud services, and customer-facing products that operate at global scale
- This is an environment where you learn by building
- Whether you're creating cloud-native solutions, optimizing machine learning models, or building products that drive experiences for millions of customers around the globe, your work reaches the world, fast
- You'll take ownership early, collaborate across teams and disciplines, and grow your skills as you tackle new problems
- There's no single path forward here, with a chance to explore different directions and shape your journey as you go
- This is where ambition meets opportunity and, where the impact of what you build helps define what comes next, for customers and for you
- This is a full-time position, meaning candidates should expect to work in office, Monday-Friday, up to 40 hours per week typically between 8am-5pm. Specific team norms around working hours will be communicated by your manager
- 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
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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