Director Amazon Data Engineer Jobs in California

Amazon's Creator Services leads creator programs that span media, commerce, and culture. The Creator Services team includes Creator Partnerships, creator content studio Wondery, and physical production facilities Studio126. We connect creators and Amazon's diverse businesses, helping bring big ideas to life across Wondery, Amazon Music, Twitch, Audible, Amazon Games, and beyond. Join us in making Amazon the home for creators.
We are seeking a skilled Data Engineer to join our Data & Tech team in building robust, production-ready systems that drive creator monetization at scale. Operating at the intersection of data and software engineering, you will collaborate with Business Intelligence engineers and cross-functional business stakeholders to standardize and curate datasets that underpin AI-driven initiatives and self-service analytics capabilities. You will also design and build internal tools and software that automate workflows, improve data accessibility, and accelerate creator monetization outcomes. This role sits within the Creator Services data and tech team, and also supports the Creator Ad Partnerships team.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines that process data at scale with high reliability and performance
- Architect and curate data models, warehouses, and dimensional schemas that serve as the foundation for self-service analytics and AI initiatives
- Drive end-to-end technical ownership of data platform components - from system design and architecture reviews to deployment, monitoring, and incident response
- Leverage AWS services - including Redshift, S3, Glue, Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, and Bedrock - to build scalable and cost-efficient data platforms
- Partner with BI engineers, program managers, and business stakeholders to translate data needs into technical solutions, while advocating for data engineering best practices across the team
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of data engineering experience
- Bachelor's degree
- 3+ years of data warehouse technical architectures, data modeling, infrastructure components, ETL/ ELT and reporting/analytic tools and environments, data structures and hands-on SQL coding experience
- Experience with database, data warehouse or data lake solutions
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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)
- Strong foundation in data governance, access controls, and compliance standards (e.g., IAM least-privilege, data classification, security certifications)
- Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership and advocating for data engineering best practices across cross-functional teams
- Skilled at designing and building internal tools, APIs, or software applications that serve data products or automate business processes
- Experience applying AI/ML technologies (e.g., large language models, generative AI, or predictive modeling) to data engineering or automation use cases
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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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USA, CA, Culver City - 132,100.00 - 178,800.00 USD annually