About the Role

This Data Engineer III role designs and builds globally distributed data systems for Project Kuiper's AI Foundations. The engineer will create scalable data lakehouses, analytics layers, and vector databases to enable low-latency queries and AI capabilities across satellite networks.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement scalable S3-based Data Lakehouse unifying structured/unstructured data
• Design and enforce standardized data ingestion patterns with quality controls and validation
• Implement robust data quality frameworks with staging-first policies and automated validation
• Architect globally distributed vector database infrastructure for billions of embeddings
• Establish automated compliance validation frameworks meeting Amazon's security standards

Required Skills & Qualifications

Must Have:

• 5+ years of data engineering experience
• Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
• Experience with SQL
• Experience in at least one modern scripting or programming language (Python, Java, Scala, NodeJS)

Nice to Have:

• Experience with big data technologies: Hadoop, Hive, Spark, EMR
• Experience operating large data warehouses

Benefits & Perks

• Medical benefits
• Financial benefits
• Equity and sign-on payments possible