Amazon

Data Engineer, Worldwide Grocery Data & Analytics

Amazon$132K — $178K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of data engineering experience
  • Proficient in data modeling, warehousing, and ETL pipeline construction
  • Experience with AWS technologies such as Redshift, S3, and Glue
  • Familiarity with non-relational databases like document stores and key-value stores
  • Strong problem-solving skills in uncertain environments

Responsibilities

  • Build infrastructure for data-driven decision-making
  • Manage and optimize AWS cloud computing resources
  • Collaborate with Business Intelligence Engineers on data reporting practices
  • Partner with Data Scientists to implement advanced analytics algorithms
  • Drive architectural and technology decisions for user experience
  • Develop knowledge of various Amazon data sources
  • Propose next-generation data architecture strategies
  • Design maintainable solutions aligned with long-term vision
  • Align work with business objectives to deliver value

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision
  • 401(k) matching program
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
  • Flexible Spending Accounts and adoption reimbursement coverage
Full Job Description
Worldwide Grocery Store Tech (WWGST) is seeking a Data Engineer to join our Data & Analytics team. In this position, you will be responsible for architecting robust data infrastructures and developing advanced data pipelines to unlock the full potential of our expansive data landscape.

Key job responsibilities

- Help build the infrastructure that powers data-driven decision making. Utilize software engineering best practices, data management fundamentals, data storage principles, and recent advances in distributed systems.

- Manage and optimize usage of cloud computing resources, particularly on AWS, to support data infrastructure.

- Collaborate with Business Intelligence Engineers to establish best practices for data reporting, analysis, integrity, testing, validation, and documentation.

- Collaborate with Data Scientists to implement advanced analytics algorithms that exploit our rich data sets for statistical analysis, prediction, clustering and machine learning.

- Drive the architecture and technology decisions that enable a world-class user experience.

- Develop in-depth knowledge of the Amazon's various data sources to determine the appropriate data resources for each use case.

- Encourage the organization to adopt next-generation data architecture strategies, proposing both data flows and storage solutions

- Thrive in an environment with a degree of ambiguity, quickly building proof of concepts, iterating, and improving data-driven solutions.

- Create extensible designs and easy to maintain solutions with the long term vision in mind.

- Have an understanding and empathy for business objectives, and continually align your work with those objectives and seek to deliver business value.

About the team

DASH Team is a cross-cutting data engineering team serving the broader WWGS organization and it is pioneering as an AI-first team, delivering analytics using AI in 2026.. DASH operates as a central hub for data infrastructure, consuming raw data, transforming it into an analytical data, and enabling access for consumers across the grocery data community. The team focuses on building robust, scalable platforms, long-term infrastructure stability, leadership goals, and measurable impact.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of data engineering experience

- Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 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)

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, TX, AUSTIN - 132,100.00 - 178,800.00 USD annually

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Amazon Careers

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