Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Elastic MapReduce (EMR)

Do you enjoy working on large-scale distributed systems Do you want to influence how the world interacts with and analyzes large data sets across a number of industries and use cases

Amazon EMR provides a managed framework that makes it easy fast and cost-effective to process vast amounts of data across dynamically scalable Amazon EC2 instances using popular distributed frameworks such as Apache Spark HBase Presto and Flink and interact with data in other AWS data stores such as Amazon S3 and Amazon DynamoDB. Our customers across industries real estate travel finance gaming and more use EMR to process and interact with their vast datasets to fulfill existing and uncover new business needs.

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to help us drive the technical direction of EMR and deliver innovative features that enable an interactive secure and seamless experience for our growing customer base. A key focus is our next-generation cluster management system designed with an emphasis on speed reliability and security. You will own the design and implementation of critical high-performance large-scale services and libraries driving solutions to complex business problems with a high degree of autonomy. You will set the technical bar for the team defining SDLC best practices shaping architectural decisions and influencing the long-term technical roadmap.

In this role you will collaborate with and mentor engineers across the team partnering with senior and principal engineers who are domain experts at AWS. You will operate in a fast-paced environment working on complex problems for a successful and long-running product with a focus on delivering high-quality software that directly impacts how customers run large-scale data workloads.

Our ideal candidate has deep expertise in distributed systems strong engineering judgment and a track record of delivering impactful technical work with broad organizational influence.

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AWS EMR: Big Data Blog: job responsibilities
- Own the design and development of large-scale distributed services that power Amazon EMRs cluster management platform serving thousands of customers worldwide.
- Drive architectural decisions and technical roadmap for core control plane components balancing speed reliability and security.
- Collaborate with product science and engineering teams to deliver new EMR capabilities end-to-end from design through production.
- Set the engineering bar for the team establishing coding standards leading design reviews and ensuring operational excellence across services.
- Mentor and grow engineers at multiple levels fostering a culture of technical rigor and continuous improvement.
- Identify and resolve complex distributed systems challenges at scale proactively improving reliability performance and customer experience.


A day in the life
Most of your time goes into designing and building the systems that keep EMR clusters running reliably at scale think design docs code reviews and working through hard distributed systems problems with your teammates. Youll regularly sync with partner teams across AWS to align on shared infrastructure and APIs. When customers hit issues at scale youre part of figuring out why and making sure it doesnt happen again. Beyond the core work youll occasionally step into broader conversations about where the product is headed and help shape what the team builds next.



About the team
We build the core control plane that powers Amazon EMR the service that lets companies across finance healthcare and gaming run large-scale data processing without managing infrastructure themselves. Our systems orchestrate every cluster from launch to termination at massive scale. Were a collaborative team with a mix of experience levels who value technical depth direct feedback and shipping things that matter. If you enjoy owning complex backend systems end-to-end and solving hard reliability and scalability problems with real customer impact youll fit right in.

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- 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

- 5 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

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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 WA Redmond - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually