Amazon
Software Development Engineer, AWS Athena and Glue ETL
$193K–$262K
East Palo Alto, CA · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in each of the three specified experience areas; no alternatives stated.
About the job
Designs and operates serverless analytics compute orchestration platform capabilities for Amazon Athena and related services, enabling scalable, multi-region infrastructure and reliable compute operations.
What you'll do
- Own end-to-end design and delivery of platform capabilities, including frameworks and abstractions for deployment, monitoring, security, and region expansion.
- Drive architecture decisions for infrastructure-as-code, orchestration, and multi-region automation; improve self-healing and observability.
- Mentor engineers, conduct design reviews, and operate services through on-call response and root cause analysis.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
CDK, CloudFormation
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