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Data Engineer, Amazon Prime

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Seattle, WA · Posted October 15, 2026

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About the job

Amazon Prime's Member Experience organization leads Research & Development for Amazon Prime. The program serves over 300 million members across 25 countries and is key to Amazon's customer growth and engagement. We build algorithms and systems for automated marketing, personalization, targeting, and decisioning using Artificial Intelligence and Economics. Within the engineering group, we develop world-class solutions to complex scientific and engineering problems at Amazon scale. You will work alongside world-class scientists to build a suite of fully automated, scalable, and robust products driven by the data systems you develop.

As Prime expands its science-driven capabilities globally, we are growing the engineering team to meet increasing demand for reliable, high-throughput data infrastructure. Do you want to work with Amazon's best engineers on hard problems at massive scale? Do you want to impact over 300 million Prime members worldwide? Are you someone who likes using big data to drive high-impact business decisions? If so, come join our team!

Key job responsibilities Build and maintain big data pipelines for machine learning applications at Amazon scale, ensuring stability and performance across terabyte-sized datasets Advance data engineering infrastructure using tools such as AWS Glue, Spark, Amazon EMR, and EMR Serverless to support science and analytics workloads Design and implement proactive data quality monitoring and alerting (e.g., anomaly detection) across production pipelines to safeguard downstream models Collaborate with scientists and analysts to create coherent data models and analysis-ready datasets that improve the customer experience for over 300 million members worldwide Evaluate and integrate generative AI tools where appropriate to automate data workflows and improve team productivity

A day in the life You will collaborate closely with Prime business leaders, scientists (economists, research scientists, applied scientists), and engineering leaders to build data solutions. You will work with AWS technologies such as Amazon EMR, Amazon S3, AWS Glue, AWS Lambda, and Amazon DynamoDB to process terabyte-scale data and support real-time access and orchestration across multiple systems. Your work will directly enhance scientific models and data applications that shape the Prime member experience globally. You will also participate in code reviews, design discussions, and team planning alongside both technical and business stakeholders.

About the team The Prime Member Experience engineering team sits at the intersection of large-scale engineering systems and applied science ,econometrics, machine learning, and AI delivering applications that reach over 300 million customers. Our team includes data engineers, software engineers, and scientists who partner closely to build and operate real-time science products. We are focused on enabling Prime Science adoption worldwide across Amazon, and the growing complexity of our real-time data products creates data engineering challenges that give you hands-on experience with problems the broader industry will face in the years ahead. - 3+ years of data engineering experience - Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines - Experience as a data engineer or related specialty (e.g., software engineer, business intelligence engineer, data scientist) with a track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets - Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence - Experience in at least one modern scripting or programming language, such as Python, Java, Scala, or NodeJS - Experience with AWS technologies like Redshift, S3, AWS Glue, EMR, Kinesis, FireHose, Lambda, and IAM roles and permissions - Experience with non-relational databases / data stores (object storage, document or key-value stores, graph databases, column-family databases) - Experience building/operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, WA, Seattle - 132,100.00 - 178,800.00 USD annually