Software Development Engineer II, AWS Sagemaker Lakehouse Catalog

Be part of a team which is passionate about solving real world data management and governance challenges. Come build large scale distributed systems that are central to the next generation of analytics in the cloud.

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!

As a Software Engineer in Lake formation you will:
- 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

Key job responsibilities
- Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture design and extensible code
- Be an advocate of industry best-practices to produce reliable fault-torrent 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 youre 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 freelyYou 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 youre not just writing code; youre 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 youve 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.

About AWS
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 hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

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- 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
- Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. 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. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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 and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA East Palo Alto - 165200.00 - 223600.00 USD annually