Software Development Engineer II, AWS Catalog - Sagemaker Lakehouse
About the role
AWS Lake Formation is a service that helps build and secure data lakes in a simple, scalable, server-less architecture. We are looking for software engineers to join our growing team.
What you'll do
- Solve unique and first-order problems in areas of Big Data, Distributed Systems, and Server-less data processing
- Influence and build products that will leverage scale of resources to orchestrate data management and governance
- Be catalyst to deliver a truly disruptive product while still early enough to have impact and influence
- Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture, design and extensible code
- Be an advocate of industry best-practices to produce reliable, fault-tolerant and dependable code
- Code and test complex system modules; develop and leverage frameworks to be effective and efficient
- Participate in architecture, design and code reviews to maintain our high development standards
- Mentor other engineers, defining our challenging technical culture, and helping to build a fast-growing team
A day in the life
Morning coffee in hand, you dive into Slack to catch up on overnight discussions. By mid-morning, you're deep in code, building features that help customers wrangle petabytes of data without breaking a sweat. You might be designing a new orchestration framework, squashing a gnarly concurrency bug, or whiteboarding with teammates to architect a solution that scales elegantly from startup to enterprise. After lunch, you join a design review where ideas fly freely. You collaborate with partner teams across AWS (think Glue, S3, Athena) to ensure Lake Formation plays nicely in the broader analytics ecosystem. During oncall, you hop on a call with a customer or solutions architect to understand a real-world data governance challenge. These conversations fuel your work — you're not just writing code; you're solving problems that help organizations unlock the value of their data securely and at scale. Before wrapping up, you spend time mentoring a newer engineer, reviewing code, or spiking on a crazy idea that might just work. You close your laptop knowing you've built something meaningful.
About the team
We are builders and data people that are obsessed with our customers and take-on big challenges. We support each other and encourage different views. We also like to have a bit of fun along the way.
Basic qualifications
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Preferred qualifications
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
- 1+ years of big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive, Lucene/SOLR or Storm/Samza experience
Pay
Base salary range: $165,200.00 - $223,600.00 USD annually (USA, CA, East Palo Alto). 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.
Benefits
- 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