Data Engineer, Marketing Insights and Technology
Job Description
Amazon Advertising’s Marketing Insights and Technology (MINT) team builds the data foundation behind advertising insights used by the organization. This Data Engineer role focuses on developing and maintaining data pipelines and data lake solutions that support scalable analytics and high-quality insights for internal and customer-facing experiences.
Based in New York, NY in an onsite role, you will help deliver reliable data integrations, modern data models, and documentation that supports downstream use across analytics, business intelligence, engineering, and agentic workflows.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the development and maintenance of data integration, data pipelines, and data lake solutions
- Implement scalable data models to serve data needs across analytics, business intelligence, engineering, and agentic workflows
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary technical professionals, including Software Development Engineers, Data Engineers, and Product Managers, to deliver for customers
- Improve existing data pipelines running in Amazon data platform solutions Datanet/Cradle and AWS compute (Glue, EMR, Airflow)
- Contribute to team documentation of data artifacts and learning
- Use feedback and introspection to raise the bar for the team
- Demonstrate Amazon leadership principles and help grow peers
Requirements
- 1+ years of data engineering experience
- Experience with data modeling, warehousing, and building ETL pipelines
- Experience with one or more query languages, such as SQL, PL/SQL, DDL, MDX, HiveQL, SparkSQL, or Scala
- Experience with one or more scripting languages, such as Python or KornShell
Technologies
- SQL, PL/SQL, DDL, MDX, HiveQL, SparkSQL, Scala
- Python, KornShell, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, EMR
- Redshift, S3, AWS Glue, Kinesis, FireHose, Lambda
- IAM roles and permissions, Datanet, Cradle, Glue, Airflow
Benefits
- Sign-on payments
- Restricted stock units (RSUs)
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and options 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
- Parental leave
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Spark, EMR
- Experience with AWS technologies including Redshift, S3, AWS Glue, EMR, Kinesis, FireHose, Lambda, and IAM roles and permissions
Compensation for this role is USD 111,400 - 185,000 per year. In MINT, you will help build foundational datasets and data services powering Amazon Advertising’s insights platform (IHub), including ownership of 300+ datasets with established data contracts and a Data Quality, Transparency and Trust program to ensure insights are accurate, timely, and explainable. The team’s infrastructure integrates with Ads platform systems and supports sales-facing experiences.