Amazon
Software Development Engineer, Open Data Analytics - Engines
$144K–$194K
Arlington, VA · Full-time · Posted Aug 12, 2026
- Experience
- 1+ years in architecture and design; 2+ years non-internship professional software development; 2+ years non-internship design or architecture; 3+ years with a Master's degree or 5+ years with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent. Preferred: 3+ years full software development life cycle.
- Education
- Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent, or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
About the job
Build and operate Athena’s distributed query-engine systems and features to deliver scalable, high-performance analytics on customer data.
What you'll do
- Design and build technologies for running analytic SQL at scale; solve distributed-systems and query-engine problems.
- Translate functional and technical requirements into architecture and design, then deliver features with high quality.
- Own software development end to end, from requirements and implementation through testing, deployment, and production operations.
What they ask for
- Programming experience in at least one software language; strong object-oriented development proficiency in Java, C, C++, or C#.
- 1+ years contributing to systems architecture and design, including reliability and scaling.
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience and 2+ years of non-internship systems design or architecture experience.
- 3+ years with a Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent, OR 5+ years with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent, in software development; strong computer science fundamentals.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life-cycle experience.
- Experience with query processing, query engines or query optimization; parallel algorithms, concurrency, asynchronous architectures, high-performance multithreaded programming, or the Hadoop ecosystem.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C, C++, C#, SQL, Parquet, Apache Iceberg, Hadoop
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