Data Engineer II, Amazon Payment Products

Description Join the Amazon Payments Products - Data Engineering team, where we build the data infrastructure powering Amazon's credit card businesses. Our team delivers data-driven solutions that impact millions of customers across Amazon's payment ecosystem. We're a high-performing team that consistently delivers while maintaining zero-defect standards through rigorous engineering practices. We're at the forefront of AI-first transformation, implementing cutting-edge automation solutions and next-generation data architectures that drive measurable productivity gains. Our work spans above and beyond the critical business areas such as customer acquisition, fraud detection, product recommendations, financial and executive reporting.

As a Data Engineer II, you'll work on high-impact projects (targeting millions of customers), large-scale customer acquisition initiatives, and fraud detection platforms. You'll collaborate with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Engineers, UX Designers, Software Development Engineers, GMs, and other cross-functional engineering teams to solve complex data challenges at massive scale while driving innovation through AI-powered automation.

Key job responsibilities

Design, build, and optimize logical data models and data pipelines for complex datasets

Own ongoing data quality and create self-service access to datasets for business intelligence

Work on major portions of existing or new data architecture within the team

Collaborate with Software Development Engineers and other Data Engineers to design stable, performant data solutions

Write secure, stable, testable, and maintainable code with minimal defects

Apply appropriate data design approaches and make judicious trade-offs without over-engineering

Optimize resource usage including system hardware, data storage, query optimization, and AWS infrastructure

Participate actively in code reviews, design discussions, and team planning

Mentor and train junior team members and new peers

Resolve root causes of complex problems and balance customer requirements with team needs

Stay current on distributed systems technologies (MapReduce, MPP architectures, NoSQL databases)

A day in the life

As a DE II, you'll leverage your expertise in distributed systems and data technologies to solve difficult problems and contribute meaningfully to the team's data architecture while maintaining high standards of operational excellence.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of data engineering experience
• 4+ years of SQL experience
• Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
• Experience with at least one programming language (Python, Java, Scala).
• Proven ability to work with large-scale datasets and optimize performance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS technologies like Redshift, S3, AWS Glue, EMR, Kinesis, FireHose, Lambda, and IAM roles and permissions
• Experience with big data frameworks: Spark, Hadoop, Hive.
• Knowledge of non-relational databases (DynamoDB, document stores, graph databases)
• Experience with real-time/streaming data architectures (Kafka, Kinesis, Flink)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field

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Company

• ADCI - Karnataka

Job ID: A10373978