Amazon is looking for experienced Data Engineers for a technology team within Alexa search. Alexa search is part of our ongoing Alexa Information efforts focused on reinventing information extraction and retrieval for a voice-forward, multi-modal future. We are looking for creative data engineers to help design and develop systems that can collect and process textual data at web scale; create text and data derivatives; and implement novel algorithms that use these derivatives to improve access to and retrieval of these derivatives in the context of Alexa user experiences and other Amazon services. Successful candidates will build data pipelines attached to web-scale repositories and will be involved in all stages of text processing and knowledge distillation, from collection, to processing and cleaning, to extraction and verification. In the process, they will collaborate closely with a team of Applied Scientists with expertise in specialized areas such as Natural Language Processing, Text
· Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related technical discipline · 2+ years of industry experience in software development, data engineering, data science, or related field with a track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets · Experience in one or more programming languages used for processing of large data sets, such as Python, Scala, Java. · Experience using big data technologies from the Hadoop ecosystem · Knowledge of data management fundamentals and data storage principles · Master’s degree in a quantitative/technical