Staff Data Engineer
AmazonSeattle, WAremote$163K–$269KGrowthPosted 23d ago · Aug 22, 2026
Amazon is hiring a staff data engineer to work on data engineering for e-commerce, logistics and aws — the largest public cloud provider.
What you would own
- Own the ingestion and transformation pipelines behind core analytics datasets.
- Design schemas and contracts that downstream teams can depend on.
- Improve pipeline reliability, freshness and cost per processed terabyte.
- Partner with analytics and product teams to model new domains.
Skills
PythonSQLSparkAirflowKafkaSnowflakeDynamoDBRedshiftScalaTerraformIceberg
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Layoffs
Amazon reduces roles across several corporate teams
Reductions were confirmed across parts of devices, advertising operations and retail support functions. AWS was described as unaffected.
Corporate reductions at Amazon historically precede a hiring pause in the same orgs.
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