Senior Research Scientist Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Are you passionate about building data driven solutions to solve a variety of problems in the cloud? Do you have a solid background in statistics, data analysis, and communication? Do you enjoy a fast-paced environment? If you answered yes to these questions, the EBS Data Science Team is a great place for you.

Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is a virtualized storage service that offers highly available, high performance storage for EC2. As one of the core building block of AWS, EBS has experienced phenomenal growth since inception. This is a great opportunity to work on one of the most challenging problems in the cloud, with incredibly talented teammates who know how to ship. If you are passionate about large scale distributed systems, massive data analytics, or are interested in systems and kernel programming, then EBS is the perfect place for you.

The Data Science Team has made major contributions to a broad and strategic set of projects. These include design and launch of four new products, continuously monitoring and improving the entire product portfolio, and detailed modeling of customer usage patterns. Our team has a diverse background, including business, computer engineering, and genetics. We're very interested in candidates with a proven track record of rapidly solving problems with data.

As a Research Scientist on the team you'll be working with a talented team to help understand and guide the business. We use a variety of data science tools, including SQL, Python, R, and Apache Spark. Our team is a mixture of software engineers and scientists who work together to build scalable solutions to important problems in cloud computing. Successful candidates will use data to drive improvements to the overall EBS business. Our team is composed of passionate, collaborative, deeply curious people who love to learn new things. The position is located in downtown Seattle, near several public transportation hubs.