Data Engineer, Amazon Alexa

Job description

DESCRIPTION

The Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) is a collection of self-service APIs, tools, documentation, and code samples that makes it fast and easy to add skills to Alexa. ASK enables designers, developers, and brands to build engaging skills and reach customers through tens of millions of Alexa-enabled devices. With ASK, developers can leverage Amazon’s knowledge and pioneering work in the field of voice design.

As an Amazon Data Engineer, you will be working in one of the world's largest and most complex data warehouse environments. You should be skilled in the architecture of DW solutions for the Enterprise using multiple platforms (RDBMS, Columnar, and Cloud). You should have extensive experience in the design, creation, management, and business use of extremely large datasets.

You should have excellent business and communication skills to be able to work with business owners to develop and define key business questions, and to build data sets that answer those questions. Above all, you should be passionate about working with huge data sets and someone who loves to bring datasets together to answer business questions and drive change.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Industry experience as a Data Engineer or related specialty (e.g., Software Engineer, Business Intelligence Engineer, Data Scientist) with a track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets
· Coding proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Python, Ruby, Java, etc)
· Experience building/operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets
· Experience building data products incrementally and integrating and managing datasets from multiple sources
· Query performance tuning skills using Unix profiling tools and SQL
· Experience providing technical leadership and mentor other engineers for the best practices on the data engineering space
· Linux/UNIX including to process large data sets
· A desire to work in a collaborative, intellectually curious environment

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
· 5+ years industry experience
· Experience in data modeling, ETL development, and data warehousing
· Data Warehousing Experience with Oracle, Redshift, Teradata, etc.
· Experience with Big Data Technologies (Hadoop, Hive, Hbase, Pig, Spark, etc.)