Data Engineer · Mid · Amazon

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AI Platform Data Engineer, Ring Agent Platform Org

Hawthorne, California, USAMid1+ yrsData Engineerposted 1 d ago

We are seeking a Platform Builder—a Data Engineer focused on developing platforms and scalable data solutions—with strong technical, analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills. This role sits at the intersection of data engineering, business intelligence, and platform engineering—requiring partnership with software development engineers, scientists, data analysts, and business stakeholders across subscriptions and monitoring services. You will design, implement, and maintain platform features and curated datasets that power subscription lifecycle analytics, monitoring service

Skills, with evidence

  • Data modelling
    Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelinesmust have
  • SQL
    Experience with SQLmust have
  • AWS
    Knowledge of AWS Infrastructuremust have · not practised here
  • Failure handling
    This role sits at the intersection of data engineering, business intelligence, and platform engineering—requiring partnership with software development engineers, scientists, data analysts, and business stakeholders across subscriptions and monitoring services.
  • Governance & security
    * Implement data governance components including data classification, PII detection, and lineage trackingnot practised here
  • Cost & performance
    This role requires a a thoughtful, fundamentals-driven approach to building robust, observable data infrastructure—from designing efficient pipelines and event-driven architectures, to leveraging automation (including AI-assisted tooling) to optimize code and workflows, to creating platforms that surface actionable insights on business health and service reliability.
  • Data quality
    You will build scalable infrastructure, automate repetitive processes, and create systems that continuously enhance data quality, discoverability, and usability across our subscription and monitoring ecosystem.
  • Streaming
    This role requires a a thoughtful, fundamentals-driven approach to building robust, observable data infrastructure—from designing efficient pipelines and event-driven architectures, to leveraging automation (including AI-assisted tooling) to optimize code and workflows, to creating platforms that surface actionable insights on business health and service reliability.
  • Dashboards & BI
    - Knowledge of BI analytics, reporting or visualization tools like Tableau, AWS QuickSight, Cognos or other third-party toolsnot practised here
  • Scala
    - Experience with one or more query language (e.g., SQL, PL/SQL, DDL, MDX, HiveQL, SparkSQL, Scala)not practised here

Your plan

  1. The SQL screen: correct, then fast

    SQL · Data quality

    1 h
  2. Data modelling: the round most people fail

    Data modelling

    2 h
  3. Pipeline design: safe to run twice

    Failure handling · Streaming

    3 h
  4. 2 h
  5. 1 h
20 drills · Foundations + Intermediate8 hours

Not covered by the plan: AWS, Governance & security, Dashboards & BI, Scala.

Readiness

Counted from drills you have completed anywhere on D8LooP.

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