Sr. Data Engineer, GO-AI Technology & Development Team

Amazon•Boston, MA

About The Position

Amazon Robotics is at the forefront of applying state-of-the-art AI to solve real-world challenges at unprecedented scale. Our fulfillment centers handle more individual items than any company in the world, combining computer vision, mobile robots, advanced end-of-arm tooling, and high-degree of freedom movement with state-of-the-art artificial intelligence. We partner with customers across Amazon worldwide to conceive, develop, prototype, and deploy intelligent robotic systems that push the boundaries of industrial automation. Within Amazon Robotics, the Global Operations - Artificial Intelligence (GO-AI) team enables Amazon to accelerate and scale the next generation of AI-powered robotic solutions. We're transforming how complex visual reasoning tasks are performed across Amazon's robotics operations, moving from traditional manual data annotation processes to state-of-the-art foundation model solutions. GO-AI’s Technology & Development Team is a cross-functional team of Data Engineers, Software Developers, Applied Scientists, and Business Intelligence Engineers who are responsible for the technical strategy and delivery for GO-AI.

Requirements

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
Have a solid understanding of data design approaches and how to best use them
Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or relevant field

Nice To Haves

7+ years of data engineering experience
Experience with AWS technologies like Redshift, S3, AWS Glue, EMR, Kinesis, FireHose, Lambda, and IAM roles and permissions
Experience with relational and non-relational databases / data stores (object storage, document or key-value stores, graph databases, column-family databases)
Experience coding in Python and typescript
Experience designing and operating large data warehouses
Experience writing REST APIs
Experience working with cross-functional engineering teams developing artificial intelligence and/or robotic solutions

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and deploy GO-AI data solutions that are high quality (e.g., secure, testable, maintainable, low-defects, efficient, well documented etc.) and incorporate best practices.
Focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions, taking on projects that improve GO-AI’s data architecture, making it better and easier to maintain.