Drimva

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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