Software Development Engineer Open Data Analytics - Engines

Amazon Web Services Open Data Analytics (ODA) organization is looking for exceptional engineers to help in our mission to provide the worlds best cloud Big Data processing platform and services such as EMR and Athena.

The ODA engines team is looking for an experienced engineer to join the core engines and datalake team.

Athena and EMR are services that our customer use to run large scale analytics leveraging open source engines like Apache Spark and Trino with datalake open table formats like Apache Iceberg Hudi and Delta. The analytics engines organization makes significant modifications to these engines to run in serverless environments and with superior performance and scalability than what is available in Open Source. In the last 3 years we have improved our engines by a factor of 5x by making changes to the optimizer query runtime and storage connectors. We have also made significant changes to the compiler to enable enterprise features like fine grain access control with these engines and table formats. Additionally we strive to regularly contribute features bug fixes and optimizations back to opensource as well be current with the latest opensource versions of these frameworks. This is a mustwin strategic area in a growing and very technical space.

We are seeking a passionate and handson engineer to collaborate closely with opensource communities like Apache Iceberg and Apache Spark driving innovations in query engines and table format integrations. In this role you will focus on performance optimizations feature enhancements stability improvements and security hardening making deep contributions across the query engine and table format codebases.

As a key member of the Engines team you will shape the technical direction influence design decisions implement critical features and foster collaboration with both internal teams and the opensource community.

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (Iot) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Key job responsibilities
Develop and optimize core components of query engines and open table formats (Iceberg Hudi Delta) to enhance performance scalability and reliability.
Design and implement innovative solutions and algorithms to improve feature capabilities stability and security in table format integrations with query engines.
Collaborate with the opensource community contributing to discussions driving improvements and integrating upstream changes.
Ensure data consistency and durability while achieving breakthrough performance and scalability for largescale data lake workloads.
Improve the organizations automation and testing capabilities.
Manage complex deliverables project and research projects with deadlines.
Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding best practices.
Be a point of contact for challenging customer issues related to data lake workloads and query engine.

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3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
3 years of programming using a modern programming language such as Java C or C# including objectoriented design experience

3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
Experience in developing and operating distributed systems or applications at large scale
Experience working on open table formats (Iceberg Hudi Delta) or query engines (Spark Trino Flink etc) is a huge plus
Experience contributing to open source code bases and collaborating with open source communities

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