Remote Amazon Data Engineer Jobs in Reston, VA (NOW HIRING)

Application deadline: Jun 21, 2026
Amazon Web Services is seeking a talented and innovative Data Engineer II to design, build, and evolve critical data capabilities for Sales Planning and Compensation (SPC). SPC delivers secure, highly available, scalable, and high-performance data solutions that empower our field teams to deliver exceptional service to AWS customers.
Join a dynamic, high-impact team at an exciting stage of product evolution. You'll help shape the future of how AWS manages and derives value from data at massive scale, while collaborating with product managers, program leaders, data scientists, and cross-AWS technical partners.
As a Data Engineer II, you'll own end-to-end data solutions - from ingestion and transformation to analytics and insight generation - while incorporating modern generative AI practices to enhance efficiency, automation, and decision-making.
Key job responsibilities
- Design and implement robust, scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes using AWS-native services (e.g., Glue, Lambda, EMR, Kinesis, S3, Redshift/Spectrum).
- Build and maintain data models, schemas, and storage solutions across relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases, data lakes, and warehouses.
- Develop, automate, and optimize metrics, reports, dashboards, and analytics workflows to drive business insights and data-informed decisions.
- Own infrastructure for data processing and analytics (e.g., Redshift clusters, Spectrum, EMR), including performance tuning, cost optimization, and architectural evolution.
- Leverage**Amazon Bedrock**,**Nova models**,**Amazon Q**,**Kiro**, and other internal AWS GenAI services to prototype intelligent features, automate data workflows, enhance data quality, and accelerate insight delivery.
- Demonstrate strong understanding of the broader GenAI ecosystem and apply it thoughtfully to real-world data engineering challenges in daily projects.
- Conduct rapid prototyping, proof-of-concepts, and automation tooling to benchmark, validate, and improve data collection, processing, and analytics.
- Collaborate across teams to ingest, transform, and integrate data from diverse sources using AWS big data technologies.
- Champion best practices in data integrity, testing, validation, monitoring, and documentation in a fast-paced environment.
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve system reliability, scalability, and efficiency while solving problems at their root.
About the team
The SPC team at AWS is a high-velocity, highly agile group operating with startup-like speed and ownership in a massive enterprise environment.
We thrive on rapidly evolving requirements, frequent pivots, and bold experimentation-hallmarks of how AWS stays ahead in a fast-moving world.
We value initiative, quick iteration, and end-to-end impact over rigid processes, fostering an environment where you own outcomes from idea to production at global scale.
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