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Software Development Engineer, AWS Athena and Glue ETL

Pay: $193,300 – $261,500 per year
Location: East Palo Alto, CA
Listed: 3 days ago

About the role

Want to help define the future of serverless compute and make it effortless for customers to run petabyte-scale analytics workloads without managing infrastructure? Come join the Serverless Analytics Compute team in Amazon Athena!

We are building the compute orchestration platform that powers Amazon Athena today - and will power other analytics services tomorrow. Our platform abstracts away the complexity of provisioning, scaling, and managing distributed compute workers so customers get instant, elastic capacity without ever thinking about servers, clusters, or fleet management. We are building to manage millions of compute workers across multiple capacity providers, delivering instant compute for analytics workloads at massive scale.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with senior and principal engineers who are domain experts at AWS. You'll develop deep expertise in areas like distributed systems, serverless compute orchestration, sub-second worker startup, multi-tenant resource isolation, and operational excellence at scale. You'll contribute to platform services that underpin some of AWS's highest-scale analytics offerings. You will enjoy competitive compensation and your contributions in this role will impact customers and businesses around the world.

What You'll Do

Own end-to-end design and delivery of platform capabilities
Build frameworks and abstractions that eliminate repetitive work for vendor teams (deployment, monitoring, security, region expansion)
Drive architecture decisions for infrastructure-as-code (CDK/CloudFormation), orchestration, and multi-region automation
Reduce operational toil through self-healing systems and improved observability
Mentor SDEs and raise the bar through design reviews and technical standards
Operate what you build - oncall, root cause analysis, and mechanisms to prevent recurrence

Basic Qualifications

5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

USA, CA, East Palo Alto - 193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually

About the team

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

Equal opportunity and legal notices

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies.

Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position.

These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Read the original posting

From Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.'s careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 6, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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