Sr. Software Development Engineer, Amazon Athena - Engine

About the role

Every day, customers run millions of queries on Amazon Athena — from ad-hoc exploration to mission-critical pipelines. Today, they get results. Tomorrow, we want them to understand why their queries behave the way they do — how much they cost, where time is spent, what went wrong, and what to do about it. We're developing new capabilities in Athena to enable customers, both external and internal, to do this. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that simplifies data analysis in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to set up or manage. Our customers use Athena to process logs, perform data analytics, and run interactive queries and get started quickly. This is all done through a simple, easy to use API in front of a complex, distributed system.

We are looking for a senior engineer to work within the team and across analytics in creating solutions to provide customers with insights into their usage of Athena while keeping the Athena experience as simple as possible. This includes publishing data to customer accounts, using your experience in AI/ML to drive deeper and more valuable insights and optimizations for customers and in our service. You'll have an opportunity to coach and mentor the team, learn more about query engines from the team and through experience, and grow our ability to make Athena even easier to use.

Key job responsibilities

• 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
• Identify problems we haven't thought of yet — see a gap in the customer experience and build the case (and the system) to close it
• 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
• Include Athena extensions like Federated Query, User Defined Functions, and helping find new ways to help customers extend Athena
• Work across our org to deliver the right solutions for customers with our core Athena control plane and engine team partners

Basic qualifications

• 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

Preferred qualifications

• 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

About the team

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

Pay

USA, NY, New York — $184,900.00 - $250,200.00 USD annually. 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

Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

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