Full-Time

Data Engineer

Ring Agent Platforms

Amazon

Amazon

10,001+ employees

Global online marketplace and cloud services

Compensation Overview

$132.1k - $178.8k/yr

+ Sign-on payments + Restricted stock units

Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

Hawthorne, CA, USA

In Person

Category
Data & Analytics (1)
Required Skills
LLM
Redshift
Graph Databases
SQL
Kinesis
ETL
Data Engineering
AWS
Observability
Data Modeling
Data Governance

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Requirements
  • At least 3 years of data engineering experience.
  • Experience with data modeling, data warehousing, and building extract, transform, and load pipelines.
  • Experience with Structured Query Language (SQL).
  • Experience with the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Demonstrated use of generative artificial intelligence tools, such as agentic coding assistants or artificial intelligence-powered integrated development environments, in a professional or project setting.
Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and operate data pipelines, models, and platform infrastructure supporting analytics, science, and artificial intelligence initiatives.
  • Own the end-to-end data lifecycle, including ingestion, transformation, modeling, quality enforcement, and delivery.
  • Use artificial intelligence development integrated development environments and generative artificial intelligence tooling to accelerate data engineering work.
  • Build multi-agent solutions that automate pipeline generation, data quality enforcement, testing, and operational response.
  • Improve developer tooling, maintain infrastructure, and support shared data platform services when needed.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services technologies including Redshift, S3, AWS Glue, EMR, Kinesis, Firehose, and IAM roles and permissions.
  • Experience with non-relational databases or data stores, including object storage, document or key-value stores, graph databases, and column-family databases.
  • Experience designing or building artificial intelligence agents or multi-agent solutions that automate engineering workflows.
  • Familiarity with agentic artificial intelligence patterns including tool use, function calling, and multi-agent orchestration.
  • Familiarity with at least one agentic artificial intelligence development integrated development environment.
  • Experience building or maintaining shared data models, semantic layers, or data contracts.
  • Familiarity with data governance, cataloging, or lineage tracking.
  • Experience contributing to shared platform infrastructure, developer tooling, or self-service data services.
  • Familiarity with observability tooling for data pipelines, including logging, metrics, and alerting.

Amazon operates a global e-commerce platform with a large online marketplace that connects consumers to both direct sales and third-party sellers across many product categories. It earns money from product sales and marketplace fees, Amazon Prime subscriptions, and AWS cloud services, plus a large Amazon Associates affiliate network. The platform combines fast shipping, streaming, cloud computing, and digital services to reach customers across numerous countries. Its goal is to be the world’s most customer-centric company by offering convenient access to a wide range of products and services.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington

Founded

1994

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • AWS backlog reached $496 billion, locking in future revenue and infrastructure demand.
  • Q2 2026 revenue hit $200.6 billion, with operating income rising to $27.5 billion.
  • AT&T's Amazon Leo partnership and Project Kuiper launches strengthen satellite ambitions against Starlink.

What critics are saying

  • Germany ordered Amazon to repay €59 million on February 5, 2026, over seller pricing controls.
  • Italy's antitrust fight over a €752.4 million fine keeps marketplace practices under attack.
  • Free cash flow turned negative $7.6 billion; $220 billion capex risks destroying returns.

What makes Amazon unique

  • AWS grew 37% in Q2 2026, reaching a $169 billion annualized run rate.
  • Amazon's logistics network still delivers unmatched fulfillment speed across Prime and marketplace.
  • Trainium, Anthropic, and custom chips deepen Amazon's AI stack beyond simple cloud reselling.

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6 month growth

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1 year growth

2%

2 year growth

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