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# Data Engineer II

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Bellevue, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $66,560.0 - $74,880.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), JavaScript (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Big Data, Code Review, Databases, Information Engineering, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Distributed Systems, Elasticsearch, Python (Programming Language), Node.Js, Software Architecture, Kusto Query Language, Scala (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Scripting, Data Storage Technologies, Apache Spark, Druid, Presto, Vertica, Software Coding, Software Version Control, Programming Languages
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us7c7b44d417114535da361ee172985fd7

## About the Role

* 5+ years of data engineering experience
 * Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
 * Experience in at least one modern scripting or programming language, such as Python, Java, Scala, or NodeJS
 * Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe data modeling decisions and data engineering strategy
 * Knowledge of distributed systems as it pertains to data storage and computing
 * Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
 * Experience in development or technical support, or experience with data infrastructures: relational analytic DBMS, Elastic-Search, and Big Data EMR/EC2/Glue/Lambda

What makes this role interesting

 * Diverse and unique team
 * Work on large impact projects
 * Really building the tools
 * Broadscale impacts
 * High visibility, * Dive deep
 * Ownership
 * bias for action
 * Yes will need advanced technical knowledge
 * 5 years of experience
 * Bachelor's degree
 * Not enough experience and not a deal breaker but job hopping with be DQ
 * Best candidate with have Prior client experience or worked at similar tech companies
 * Quality of work and being able to work independently

Top 3 must-have hard skills

 * Java
 * Javascript
 * AWS

## Description

Build at a scale that changes the problem. Deploy, extend and operate multi-petabyte MPP - StarRocks, ClickHouse, Trino/Presto, Spark, Druid, Kusto. Go deep into database internals…

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