Data Engineer, Marketing Insights and Technology

Amazon Advertising’s Marketing Insights and Technology (MINT) team is looking for a data engineer to build and maintain data pipelines and data lake solutions that support advertising insights. This role emphasizes scalable data modeling, integration with Amazon data platform solutions, and ongoing improvements to data quality, reliability, and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain data integration services, data pipelines, and data lake solutions.
• Create scalable data models to support analytics, business intelligence, engineering, and agentic workflows.
• Work with multi-disciplinary technical professionals, including Software Development Engineers, Data Engineers, and Product Managers, to deliver solutions on behalf of customers.
• Improve existing data pipelines running in Amazon data platform solutions Datanet/Cradle and AWS compute systems including Glue, EMR, and Airflow.
• Contribute to the team’s documentation of data artifacts and learning.
• Use feedback and peer input to raise standards across the team.
• Demonstrate Amazon leadership principles and support the growth of peers within the group.

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 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
• Parental leave

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with big data technologies including Hadoop, Hive, Spark, and EMR.
• Experience with AWS technologies including Redshift, S3, AWS Glue, EMR, Kinesis, FireHose, Lambda, and IAM roles and permissions.

About the Team

MINT builds foundational datasets and data services that power Amazon Advertising’s insights platform (IHub). The team owns 300+ datasets with data contracts and operates a Data Quality, Transparency and Trust program to support insights that are accurate, timely, and explainable. Its infrastructure integrates with Ads platform systems and supports sales-facing experiences.

Location and Compensation

Location: New York, NY (onsite).
Salary: USD 111,400 - 185,000 per yearly.