Amazon
Senior Data Engineer, AWS Analytics Engineering
$155K–$209K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of data engineering; 5+ years of data warehouse technical architectures and related areas.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, IT or equivalent.
About the job
Owns data domains, pipelines, and architecture for AWS analytics, delivering secure, scalable data products and systems that inform business decisions.
What you'll do
- Build and operate data ingestion, transformation, and analytical pipelines; improve processing tools and practices.
- Own team-level data and infrastructure architecture, including security, scalability, cost effectiveness, monitoring, and operational health.
- Provide technical leadership through cross-team collaboration, project delivery, mentoring, and architectural guidance.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of data engineering experience.
- Experience with a modern programming or scripting language, such as Python, Java, Scala, or NodeJS; MPP databases such as Amazon Redshift; and large-scale distributed data systems.
- 5+ years of data warehouse architectures, data modeling, ETL/ELT, reporting or analytics tools, data structures, and hands-on SQL coding.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, IT or equivalent; experience mentoring engineers and communicating technical strategy.
Nice to have
- Experience with Hadoop, Hive, Spark, or EMR; operating large data warehouses.
- Experience with Data & AI technologies or delivering large cross-functional initiatives.
Pay
154,600.00 - 209,100.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
SQL, Python, Java, Scala, NodeJS, Amazon Redshift, AWS EMR, Glue
AI focus
Hands-on AI/ML experience, including LLMs, and designing and building agentic frameworks with autonomous agents, multi-agent orchestration, and tool integration; applying AI to accelerate analytics.
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