Software Development Engineer, Open Data Analytics Engines

Want to change the world with Big Data and Analytics Come join us on the Amazon Analytics team in Amazon Web Services!

Amazon Athena is an analytics service that makes it easy to get insights from Amazon S3 based data lakes using open standards like SQL Parquet Apache Iceberg and others. Athena is serverless so there is no infrastructure to set up or manage as the service scales automatically based on data volume and query complexity. Creating a simple rich and performant experience for customers requires solving challenging engineering problems.

We are working on our own scaling infrastructure (virtualization tenant isolation forecasting scheduling containers admission control infrastructure deployment) and making significant performance and reliability improvements to our Open Source based engine (memory management micro-optimizations CBO vectorization etc.) Were looking for top engineers to design and build features that bridge the gap between OSS query engines and hyper-scaler performance.

We value highly technical hands-on data driven leaders who know multiple query engine internals and are willing to learn new areas. A successful engineer is hardwired towards engineering excellence and understands what it takes to run a production service. We look for individuals who will set aside meaningful time to develop themselves as we continually learn from customers.

You will work backwards from the customer needs and you will get to do everything from designing and building large scale systems and features for the savviest customers in the business.

By joining our team you will get to work with a minimum of technical supervision while playing a variety of roles as needed to respond efficiently to multiple program priorities. You will get to collaborate with some of the best and brightest minds in the industry. Youll enjoy a competitive salary great benefits a creative and agile work environment and the exciting opportunity to be part of a fast-paced and growing team and one of the most innovative technology companies - but most of all you will get the satisfaction of making products that millions use everyday to great effect!
To learn more about Athena and EMR:

* Amazon Athena: AWS Big Data Blog:

Key job responsibilities
- Designing and building the next-generation technologies that will make Athena SQL the best environment to run analytic SQL at any scale
- Working on complex problems in distributed systems and query engines.
- Translation of complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design.
- Deliver systems and features with top-notch quality on time.
- Own the software development process end-to-end including: working with engineers and product managers to develop requirements; designing architecting planning implementing and testing new systems and features; deploying and operating the production Athena systems.

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- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 1 years of contributing to new and current systems architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) experience
- 2 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
- 3 years of experience with Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent OR 5 years experience with Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent in: software development including design implementation debugging and support
- Very strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design data structures problem solving and complexity analysis
- Strong proficiency in developing objected-oriented software with deep experience in one or more relevant languages (Java C C C#)

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Experience designing building operating and managing large-scale distributed systems or web services
- 3 years of agile software development methodology experience
- 1 years of distributed systems experience
- Experience working in at least two of these languages: Python Java Perl PHP Ruby or Bash/Shell
- Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver products and projects on tight deadlines
- Masters degree in computer science or equivalent or experience with distributed multi-tiered systems algorithms and relational databases
- * Experience in query processing query engines and/or query optimization.
- * Thorough understanding of parallel algorithms concurrency asynchronous architectures
- * Proficiency in high-performance multi-threaded programming
- * Knowledge of and contribution to Hadoop ecosystem

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