Data Engineer, Amazon
$105.7-205.6k
+ equity
Office located in Irvine, CA
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$105.7-205.6k
+ equity
Office located in Irvine, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or other related roles
- 3+ years in relational database concepts with a solid knowledge of star schema, SQL, SQL Tuning, OLAP, Big Data technologies
- 3+ years of experience in generating and maintaining data pipelines from various data sources, in collaboration with diverse stakeholders
- Experience with best practices for development including query optimization, version control, code reviews, and documentation
- Experience working with Amazon Webservices, S3, EMR, Redshift etc
- Experience with coding languages like Python/Java/Scala
What the job involves
- Your responsibilities will range from developing and enhancing our data warehouse which acts as a source of truth across the company, driving data quality across product verticals and business areas, building self-service business intelligence infrastructure for analysts, as well as connecting into data interfaces that enable everyone in Twitch to discover and analyze the data
- In the process, you will have the opportunity to interact with technical and non-technical staff members throughout the company, and will report to the Engineering Manager of Data Platform - Insights
- Define and own team level data architecture for the trusted, governed, dimensionally-modeled repository of data that enables Twitch staff to quickly and reliably answer their business questions
- Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc
- Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and AWS ‘big data’ technologies
- Keep existing data sources fresh against data quality issues, design, develop and maintain data quality assurance framework and continuously improve the processes for developing new ones raising the level of quality expected from our work
- Conduct unit, integration, and system tests on our data sources in order to validate data against source systems, and continuously optimize performance in order to improve query speed and reduce cost
- Improve search, discovery and literacy: Create exploration and visualization interfaces in our BI tools and evangelize the adoption of these sources across the company through education and training programs
- Improve business and engineering team processes via data architecture, engineering, test, and operational excellence best practices. Make enhancements that improve data processes
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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