SDE II: Secure Data Storage & AI Analytics

Amazon; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Santa Clara is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to own and evolve production systems handling the full data lifecycle—from ingestion to model training and customer opt-out controls.

You will collaborate with scientists and engineers to build scalable, compliant data storage and analytics solutions. The role focuses on securing data foundations, building self-service platforms, and ensuring governance while balancing feature delivery and operational work.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of non‑internship design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Experience designing and implementing data storage systems, ETL pipelines, or machine learning infrastructure for model training and evaluation workflows.
• Proven track record building distributed systems with event‑driven architectures and APIs that operate reliably at enterprise scale.
• Experience with data security, privacy compliance, and implementing data retention/deletion mechanisms.
• Working knowledge of AWS services for data processing and machine learning such as S3, SageMaker, and related data infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver complete software features for event-based data storage systems, from design through deployment and operations, ensuring they provide flexible, secure, and compliant platforms for AI-powered business applications
• Maintain, refactor, and enhance existing storage and analytics platform, identifying opportunities to improve performance, scalability, and operational excellence while eliminating technical debt
• Design and implement software solutions for data access interfaces and authorization systems within established architectural strategies, seeking guidance from senior engineers when facing complex technical tradeoffs
• Mentor team members through code reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing—providing meaningful feedback, training newcomers on system architecture, and facilitating technical discussions that promote operational excellence
• Resolve operational issues by identifying root causes and implementing permanent fixes for compliance features, data deletion APIs, and customer opt‑out mechanisms, going beyond quick workarounds
• Work directly with business application teams and stakeholders to understand requirements, translating them into technical solutions that balance customer needs with platform sustainability
• Take ownership of security implementations including encryption, access controls, audit trails, and PII handling, ensuring software can be maintained and extended by other engineers
• Drive improvements to self‑service platforms and control planes, making priority tradeoffs between new feature development and operational work while maintaining governance standards

Skills

Software development experience

Architecture design

Distributed systems

Data security & privacy

AWS services knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

S3

SageMaker

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Santa Clara is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to own and evolve production systems handling the full data lifecycle—from ingestion to model training and customer opt-out controls.

You will collaborate with scientists and engineers to build scalable, compliant data storage and analytics solutions. The role focuses on securing data foundations, building self-service platforms, and ensuring governance while balancing feature delivery and operational work.