[Remote] Sr. Software Development Engineer, Amazon Athena - Engine
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive cloud platform providing services such as Amazon Athena, a serverless interactive query service for data analysis in Amazon S3. The Sr. Software Development Engineer will build distributed systems and customer insights capabilities for Athena, including publishing usage data, applying AI/ML for optimizations, and developing extensions such as Federated Query and User Defined Functions. The role also involves mentoring engineers, shaping the roadmap, and partnering across teams to improve Athena's customer experience.
Responsibilities
- Our ideal candidate has excellent programming skills, is an independent decision-maker with high judgement to build distributed systems supporting and delighting customers. As a senior engineer on the team you will work on finding ways to help customers extend Athena simply, scale and automate operations, and help develop others on the team and across the organization. We expect you to identify problems we haven't thought of yet. The best candidate sees a gap in the customer experience and builds the case (and the system) to close it
- The Insights & Extensions team is part of the Athena Engine organizations. In this role, you will work through other SDEs on our team, partner with your manager and other Sr. SDEs in and outside of our team to build and execute our roadmap. This includes Athena extensions like Federated Query, User Defined Functions, and helping find new ways to help customers extend Athena. You will work across our org to deliver the right solutions for customers with our core Athena control plane and engine team partners
Skills
- 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
- 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
- 4+ years of highly scalable systems experience
- Experience with training and deploying machine learning systems to solve large-scale optimizations, or experience operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets
Benefits
- Sign-on payments
- Restricted stock units (RSUs)
- 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
- Parental leave
- Mentorship and other career-advancing resources
- Flexibility as part of our working culture
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