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the posting, the skills it asks for, and the plan to get there

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Software Development Engineer , Leo Commerce Data Platform

Redmond, Washington, USAMid2+ yrsData Platformposted 7 d ago

Amazon Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband network connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world - from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S.

Skills, with evidence

  • Data quality
    Define reference architectures, templates, blueprints, infrastructure standards, and data quality frameworks for domain teams.must have
  • Schema evolution & contracts
    Own the schema evolution system across Iceberg, Glue registry, and DataZone, enforcing platform patterns.must have
  • Failure handling
    - Own operational excellence for their components: monitoring, alarming, DLQ/retry, and incident root-cause analysis.
  • Warehousing
    - Own the schema evolution system across Iceberg, Glue registry, and DataZone, enforcing platform patterns.
  • AWS
    - Own the schema evolution system across Iceberg, Glue registry, and DataZone, enforcing platform patterns.not practised here
  • Governance & security
    We also have recently took on owning SOX Compliance, since financial data fits well within our data charter.not practised here
  • Java
    - 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experiencenot practised here

Your plan

  1. The SQL screen: correct, then fast

    Data quality

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

    Warehousing

    2 h
  3. Pipeline design: safe to run twice

    Schema evolution & contracts · Failure handling

    3 h
  4. 1 h
15 drills · Foundations + Intermediate6 hours

Not covered by the plan: AWS, Governance & security, Java.

Readiness

Counted from drills you have completed anywhere on D8LooP.

leaves in 6 dremoved the moment Amazon closes it

Software Development Engineer , Leo Commerce Data Platform at Amazon: skills and prep plan · D8LooP