Data Engineer Amazon
Newark, NJ

Job Description

This opportunity is for a Senior Data Engineer (DE) within Audible's Data Science group. In this role, you will be a member of an interdisciplinary team of Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Software Development Engineers. This team will be responsible for modeling many business areas such as Customer Engagement, Marketing, Content Management, Recommendations and more.

You have a passion for Big Data and its supporting technologies and platform components. You will be an enabler for cutting edge modeling efforts, passionate about accessing, moving, processing and managing terabytes of data in a performant, scalable, fault-tolerant way, and will display your strong problem-solving ability in different environments.

You will be able to thrive in the powerful, advanced environment that makes Audible such a unique company in the area of data-processing technology, and will be offered a perfect mix of responsibility and mentoring. You will also be exposed to modeling tasks further downstream of the Data Science value creation process.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

* Apply business understanding and a technology know-how to cutting edge Data Science problems
* Play a leading role in architecture design and implementation of next generation BI solutions
* Play a leading role in optimally acquiring, crunching, and understanding for Machine Learning (ML) and modeling by Data Scientists
* Effectively communicate with various teams and stakeholders, escalate technical and managerial issues at the right time and resolve conflicts
* Peer review work. Actively mentor more junior members of the team, improving their skills, their knowledge of our systems and their ability to get things done

HOW DOES AMAZON FIT IN?

We're a part of Amazon, they are our parent company and it's a great partnership. You'll get to play with all of Amazon's technologies like EC2, SQS and S3 but it doesn't stop there. Audible is built on Amazon technology and you'll have insight into the inner workings of the world's leading ecommerce experience. There's a LOT to learn!

If you want to own and solve problems, work with a creative dynamic team, fail fast in a supportive environment whilst growing your career and working on a platform that powers web applications used by millions of customers worldwide we want to hear from you.