Posted 17 days ago
Data Engineer, Amazon Prime
@ Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC
Vancouver, British Columbia
Overview
Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC is hiring a full-time Data Engineer for Amazon Prime's Member Experience team to build and maintain big data pipelines and infrastructure for machine learning and analytics at Amazon scale. The role serves over 300 million Prime members and works closely with scientists and business leaders. The posting states a base salary of 103,300 to 172,600 CAD annually for Vancouver, BC, with a total compensation package and comprehensive benefits.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain big data pipelines for machine learning at Amazon scale
- Advance data infrastructure using AWS Glue, Spark, EMR and EMR Serverless
- Design data quality monitoring and anomaly detection across production pipelines
- Create data models and analysis-ready datasets with scientists and analysts
- Evaluate generative AI tools to automate data workflows
Requirements summary:
- At least 3 years of data engineering experience
- Experience with data modeling, warehousing and ETL pipelines
- Track record of processing and extracting value from large datasets
- Experience with AWS technologies such as Redshift, S3, Glue, EMR and Kinesis (preferred)
- Experience with non-relational data stores (preferred)
Tools & skills
Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
Source type not verified · amazon
- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-20
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-27
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-06
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Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Data & analytics |
| Experience | 3+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Encouraged to apply | People with disabilities |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Retirement plan, Performance bonus, Stock or equity, Wellness |
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Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC
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Description
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.
Basic Qualifications
- 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
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)
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. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.
CAN, BC, Vancouver - 103,300.00 - 172,600.00 CAD annually
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