Senior Data Engineer, Amazon
Shopbop
$118.9-205.6k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$118.9-205.6k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of data engineering experience
- Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
Desirable
- 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)
What the job involves
- As a Data Engineer at Shopbop team you will routinely solve complex data problems, unblocking critical projects that drive Shopbop’s Mission to be “the daily destination for style inspiration and discovery”
- Wether you are optimizing analysis for marketing to tune their strategies, building new pipelines to drive down shipping speeds, or helping accounting drill down to track our business - your work will empower meaningful change for your customers
- You will partner closely with stakeholders across our business and partners on the Data Engineering team to deliver new features, or pitch in to migrate legacy features to a modern AWS-based platform
- You will be an active partner in Amazon’s (Shopbop’s parent company) data engineering group, taking part in learning series and operational reviews with industry-leading engineers
- You will own projects that build new data pipelines, migrate pipelines form our legacy Informatica system to a modern AWS-based system, or refine existing pipelines to deliver more value for our customers
- You will partner with colleagues across Shopbop to understand their business domains and build solutions that meet their needs
- You will also be an active participant within the data team at Shopbop, suggesting improvements that improve the teams operational health, and reduce errors for customers
- You will participate in Amazon’s active engineering culture learning and teaching the best
- You start the day responding to an email, and start a brief chat to align on requirements with a stakeholder
- You hop into a code review, accepting most of the feedback, but noting an area to discuss
- You go heads down for a while working on your current story
- After standup, you help a peer struggling with a dataset you know, and discuss their CR feedback
- In the afternoon you attend a presentation on how to implement effective data models for Machine Learning, spurring ideas for how to improve Shopbop’s personalization data feed
- You attend the weekly operational review, and are pleased to see a fix you made has reduced total run time on a critical job by 40%
- You finish up the day by working on your primary deliverable before signing off
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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