Data Engineer II, Amazon Payment Products

Amazon Payments Products - North America Credit (APD-NAC) Data Engineering Team

Join the Amazon Payments Products - North America Credit (APD-NAC) data engineering team, where we build the data infrastructure powering Amazon's credit card businesses. Our team delivers data-driven solutions that impact millions of customers across Amazon's payment ecosystem. We're a high-performing team that consistently delivers while maintaining zero-defect standards through rigorous engineering practices. We're at the forefront of AI-first transformation, implementing cutting-edge automation solutions and next-generation data architectures that drive measurable productivity gains. Our work spans critical business areas such as customer acquisition, fraud detection, product recommendations, financial and executive reporting.

As a Data Engineer II, you'll work on high-impact projects targeting millions of customers, large-scale customer acquisition initiatives, and fraud detection platforms. You'll collaborate with product managers, data scientists, business intelligence engineers, UX designers, software development engineers, GMs, and other cross-functional engineering teams to solve complex data challenges at massive scale while driving innovation through AI-powered automation.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize logical data models and data pipelines for complex datasets
• Own ongoing data quality and create self-service access to datasets for business intelligence
• Work on major portions of existing or new data architecture within the team
• Collaborate with software development engineers and other data engineers to design stable, performant data solutions
• Write secure, stable, testable, and maintainable code with minimal defects
• Apply appropriate data design approaches and make judicious trade-offs without over-engineering
• Optimize resource usage including system hardware, data storage, query optimization, and AWS infrastructure
• Participate actively in code reviews, design discussions, and team planning
• Mentor and train junior team members and new peers
• Resolve root causes of complex problems and balance customer requirements with team needs
• Stay current on distributed systems technologies (MapReduce, MPP architectures, NoSQL databases)

A day in the life as a DE II will leverage your expertise in distributed systems and data technologies to solve difficult problems and contribute meaningfully to the team's data architecture while maintaining high standards of operational excellence.