The Senior Data Engineer role at Amazon's People Insights & Experience (APIX) team focuses on building scalable data infrastructure to support critical business decisions. This position involves transforming Amazon's people-data ecosystem into a centralized, AI-ready platform. The engineer will lead technical excellence and mentor other engineers while addressing complex data architecture challenges. The role directly impacts how Amazon makes data-driven workforce decisions by enabling self-service analytics and data governance.

• 5+ years of data engineering experience
• Experience with data modeling, warehousing, and building ETL pipelines
• Experience with SQL
• Experience in at least one modern scripting or programming language, such as Python, Java, Scala, or NodeJS
• Experience mentoring team members on best practices
• Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Spark, EMR
• Experience operating large data warehouses

• Own team data architecture with a system-wide perspective and proactively remove bottlenecks.
• Design and deliver large-scale data solutions that are secure, maintainable, scalable, and extensible.
• Lead architectural improvements that simplify complex data systems.
• Work efficiently in ambiguous problem areas to define technical strategies.
• Design and implement scalable data pipelines and ETL processes.
• Set and enforce standards for data discovery, operational excellence, and data security.
• Mentor and coach data engineers and analysts to improve technical knowledge.
• Stay current with evolving AWS data technologies and integrate emerging technologies.

• Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.